I don’t let Apollo off that easy. I think he’s exactly as shady as Phaedra - she’s not MORE manipulative than he is. That’s why they were a perfect match. Don’t forget how much he LIED about Kenya and all the texts they shared and whether or not they met at a hotel etc. Remember the end of the season a couple…

Damn, you nailed it with these two words: “perform guilt” - that perfectly describes most of the apologies on the Real Housewives franchises.  

Yes, I was especially upset with Kandi after her mom attacked her best friend with some serious bullshit about her ties to Todd, and Kandi’s most intense defense was, “that’s not okay, mama.” She didn’t leap up to stop her mom from lunging at her best friend in the bridal store, for example. Complicit is the perfect…

I’m always irked that Andy always LOVES the worst people - like Patricia Altschul, for example. And Kandi’s mom. So your theory has some weight.

Yes, and that reunion where all the Atlanta Housewives wore white? Stunning! I think that was last season, but I could not take my eyes off the glamour and beauty. Agree about Atlanta - beautiful girls.

This series came about at the time that Desperate Housewives was really hot, and so calling it “REAL Housewives” was a play on that (i.e. Desperate Housewives was scripted, Real Housewives was reality TV). It was less about them needing cast members to be married and housewives, and more about matching the…

I blame Phaedra’s propensity for lies on her extremely strict religious upbringing. It seems she’s always had to suppress who she really is in order to keep in line with her religious background. The lies over the pregnancy made me initially thing this - that it was “shameful” for her to be pregnant before marriage,…

This was an amazing sentence, “A cease and desist is nothing more than a strongly worded Yelp review.” lol literally.  

YES. After getting laid off from a job, I toyed with the idea of freelancing and consulting, but the insurance part of it makes it cost prohibitive. Lack of national healthcare is also shitty for the economy, and the growth of opportunity, since most people are in “job lock” or “golden handcuffs” because of health…

And deductibles. I’d rather have everybody pay more in taxes and have EVERYONE covered.

Oh I LOVE Obama, but so far, I’d say that after office, Jimmy Carter is the best former president ever. Habitat for Humanity, all his post-presidential work in diplomacy (Nobel Peace Prize in 2002). I mean, Obama will hopefully live a long life, but he’s been out of office only a little over 100 days, he has a long…

Yeah I don’t even know what I’d call his hair color. It’s not quite blonde, not fully orange, it’s a light color of.....something. Not human, though. More like the hair color you’d find on a Sea Wee (mermaid doll from the 1980's/90s).

I fear this, but I take heart in revolutions of the past. I don’t know if we’ll get to “enjoy” this in our lifetime, but even billionaire (and Independent) Nick Hanaeur wrote a piece for Politico directed at other billionaires, called “The Pitchforks are coming” about how the days are numbered for the current…

We’ve got to get on top of gerrymandering first - to make sure all our votes get counted in the right ways!! Huge trend where Dems are getting huge percentages of the votes, but because of gerrymandering, they’re losing their seats to Republicans. Also making it very difficult to unseat an incumbent Republican (this…

“Many of its failings stem from the provisions allowing states to opt out of Medicaid expansion.” And concessions made to insurance companies, so that there would be no public option, meaning they wouldn’t have competition keeping their premiums down. Holdout Joe Leiberman is one of the HUGE reasons the ACA is as…

From one writer to another, I just want to say that your opening sentence was a thing of beauty: “Once upon a time, the United States of America had a dignified President who successfully connected subjects to verbs multiple times a day.” Excellent. Excellent.

Yes, but we’ve been conditioned to believe that our lives only have meaning if they’re share-worthy to a larger audience. And really, that can’t be true, you know? Think of the number of people that exist on the planet, it would be hard to believe that the only lives that matter on earth are the famous or those that…

This is a SUPER cheesy suggestion, but whenever I’ve needed to keep my stress level down while also being totally preoccupied, I have found that the PEOPLE MAGAZINE puzzle books are a healing balm. Not just a standard issue magazine, these are books (they’re magazine-sized, but are paperbacks, not magazines). It’s…

Oh my, I did not see your original post, but sending good vibes right now!!!!!!!! So glad she is making strides, and that you’re getting support from all over. Add mine to the pile.

Yep, that’s what I do too. Nobody can randomly tag me,I have to approve it. And yeah, especially because some people will post a pic that is very flattering to them but makes you look super shitty. I was in the background of a pic taking a bite of wedding cake once, and have you ever hit the pause button on a movie…