Sometimes I feel bad for making fun of some behavior of Cheryl's, though my bad feelings are totally dependent on how she reacts. She's way better at dealing with being a target than I am, mostly because I'm either too sensitive or too insecure, but this from David Brooks column today helps me feel better about it:

G. K. Chesterton had the best advice on suffering fools gladly. He put emphasis on the gladly. When you’re with fools, laugh with them and at them simultaneously: “An obvious instance is that of ordinary and happy marriage. A man and a woman cannot live together without having against each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered that the other is a fool, but a great fool. This largeness, this grossness and gorgeousness of folly is the thing which we all find about those with whom we are in intimate contact; and it is the one enduring basis of affection, and even of respect.”