“The idea is that they are a known entity expected to continue the same agenda, have name recognition, and can play a sympathy card.”

It sounds like your issue isn’t with spousal appointments, but how vacancies are (legally) filled in general. If the guy had been unmarried, someone else would have been appointed to the open post in exactly the same way. That the party sometimes choses spouses is expedient, but it is by no means automatic or…

Rebecca Johnson didn’t take her husband’s position, she was just running (I think).

I cannot look at that stupid spelling without hearing Keegan Michael Key in my head every time.

I know some obstetricians are C-section happy but this one looks like it was warranted because the baby’s heart rate went too far down during labor. It’s the aftercare that I found seriously lacking.

My first thought when I read that story was, this is an elite professional athlete. The woman knows her body. She not only knew what was happening, she knew the course of treatment necessary.

I’m tired so maybe I feeling generous but I read it like she made a mistake and she has empathy for people who have made similar mistakes. I don’t think she’s saying she has empathy for Polanski.

I feel like the right coat, like a red velvet trench with an enormous (faux) fur collar, wouldn’t be amiss with the whole femme fatale vibe. It would also make this a lot more fair!

Come on, you’re better than this! My wife and I play in a bowling league together and we’re not fucking.

Not really if you think about it. What do these shows want:

I think the 800-question psyche eval is used to mess with them/provoke their ticks in service of entertaining television than it is in the service of preserving their mental well-being, or making sure they’re mentally strong enough for reality TV in the first place.

Right?! Why didn’t anyone try to stop her? It’s clear from the rehearsal footage that shit is not going well. Everybody needs that one friend who isn’t afraid to tell you what you’re doing straight up isn’t working.

I guess he could have shown up with his trumpet, but honestly what were they expecting when they asked a bassist to perform a musical piece?

This is an unpopular opinion, but: I actually respect Fergie a ton for this. She’s a woman who pissed herself on stage at an awards show and finished the damn set. Despite constant criticism of her voice, she basically always sings live. I kinda feel like she kicked meth and then was was just like “How bad could it…

I watched it live. My entire family cringed with horror. The problem is that Fergie can never just sing a song. She always has to inject it with strange inflections, a growly sexy baby voice, or weird vocal gymnastics. Did you see how she walked up to the mic?!!!

I’ve seen Joel McHale’s stand-up twice, once at a comedy festival in Grand Rapids, MI. (where he spent a good part of the evening bashing Amway and the DeVoses, when they were right there in the audience) and a second time at a fundraiser for Forgotten Harvest in Detroit (a food rescue organization that distributes to…

I don’t think I could top the woman whose story was she got her college diploma in the mail, and had trouble opening the envelope, but she got it opened eventually.

There have been so many Great Story, Jeopardy Contestant! stories lately. Alex (who I am beginning to suspect is an android) never knows how to respond so he keeps saying “Good for you!”

My dream was to get on Jeopardy, so I could tell a terrible story, and be on The Soup segment: Great Story Jeopardy Contestant!

So happy to have “The Soup” back. Don’t care what they call it.