One of the great mysteries to me is how evil men end up with wives and children.

I’m not talking, of course, about a random rival here or there tha someone doesn’t care for, or even the average mean fellow. That can happen. No, I mean that it’s a mystery to me how a person can be a really, really evil guy, and still find some woman who sees enough good in him to marry him and bear his children.

Haman, for example, had 10 sons and who knows how many daughters. Pontius Pilate had a wife and children. So, apparently, did Attila the Hun. Even Adolph Hitler could have been married if he’d wanted to be; Eva Braun waited until nearly the end of their lives before getting her wish and becoming Mrs. Hitler.

What is up with that? Was it too much alcohol in their daily routine? The lack of comfortable adjustable beds? Or maybe just a screw loose? And where were they when their husbands started doing all this evil crap? Clearly, being nagged back from the edge might have saved some lives.

It’s hard to say. But it’s clear that in matters of the heart, not only is love sometimes blind, it’s deaf, mute and outright stupid, to boot.

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