Relationship Maps: Choose foxhole occupants carefully

While searching the TV channels the other day (Did Comcast change all of your channels, too?) I came upon a movie, identity unknown, in which Topher Grace was asking Dennis Quaid about marriage. I didn't stick around long (that wasn't the channel I was looking for), but I heard at least the beginning of Mr. Quaid's answer about how to have a successful marriage.

He said, "Choose who you want in the foxhole with you." I really liked that answer.

In this country, very few of us are going to end up in actual foxholes. However, life is full of metaphorical foxholes. As I write this column, the headlines...