I knew that I would be ruffling a few feathers with Thursday’s 5 Stocks That Will Never Be Great Again column. I took a look at five companies with passionate investors. Starbucks. General Electric. Microsoft. Blockbuster. Dell. Then I explained why the companies will have to settle for simply being good — but no longer great — in the future. This doesn’t mean that they will be terrible investments. Good is, by definition, good enough. However, when investors expect greatness, they always have to stay on top of their investments, because there is always someone waiting with a new mousetrap to unload.

Most people have had a good chuckle or two over the rudderless response that 18-year-old Miss Teen South Carolina gave in the Miss Teen USA pageant recently. Always one to hop on a theme to make a market-driven point, I used the event as a way to pivot towards the importance of having a globally diversified portfolio. After all, if she mentions South Africa, Asia, and “the” Iraq, it can’t be too far away form the minds of “U.S. Americans.” Read Invest Like Miss Teen South Carolina to know what I mean.

With love in the air — whatever that means — I took the popular “eff, marry, kill” game and applied it to stocks. If I took a look at three related companies, which one would I want to date for a short-term trade? Which one would I like to marry as a long-term investment? Which one would then leave me with no choice but to rub out and possibly short?

On Monday I gave it my first crack by taking a look at companies that are revolutionizing the way we listen to music. I went with Sirius (Nasdaq: SIRI), XM Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: XMSR), and Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL). My answers are already in the headline, but you would be best to read the entire article to find out why I came to those conclusions.