If you?re like me, a single, urbanite, pseudo-intellectual raised on the TV set, you find your brain has been pockmarked by pop culture. You are as apt to quote Mr. Spock as Shakespeare, Seinfeld as Socrates.

And like a dog chewing new slippers, that?s bad, bad, bad because pop culture, and its favorite delivery system, television, are a big reason that 10 percent of the U.S. population is divorced, a number that has been rising since 1980 (learn more happy news at www.divorcemag.com!)