See, I view it as a direct outgrowth of being raised among extraordinary privilege. I don’t say that derisively. It’s more that all of us are, to some degree or another, unfulfilled and unhappy. If you’re me or you, we can pinpoint some origin for that: I hate my job, my kids exhaust me, I’ve gained 20 pounds, I can’t…

Why does E! understand that viewers love the Lord but not understand what it is we love? It’s that the man had crushed velvet slippers handmaid for himself in London after he openly bought himself a title. If I recall, he even hired a bugler to announce him? He’s funny because he’s the same social climbing,…

I had the same reaction! I was like, “I never thought I’d miss when Khloe was more obnoxious.” FWIW, Mr. Slowtrain and I are wrapping up “Bodyguard” on Netflix and have found it’s filled a hole left in our TV viewing after I just couldn’t take Handmaid’s Tale anymore (I’m pregnant after a neonatal loss and it’s just…

In fairness, I feel like the notion that Astoria is a Greek neighborhood with Greek food is a bit outdated. Whenever I’m around my Greek pseudo-in-laws (long story) and mention a place I love, they yell at me about how YOU SHOULD BE EATING GREEK FOOD. And I’m like, cool, yeah, alright. Except I’m allergic to onions…

I mean, this is part of the classic choreography of these events. You could draw a lifecycle of shooting -> thoughts and prayers -> gun control -> he was mentally ill and “crazy” people can’t be stopped (apparently, anyone on an SSRI is on some kind of unstoppable mission from God to commit mass murder) -> the “ok…

WHY. Why do we want someone to say that they denounce something they support? Are we so seduced by a culture of compulsive apologizing that now we actually demand hollow apologies because it’s just what we’re used to? Do we think the unhinged shooters will stop shooting if one time this bigot-monster says, “No no,…

This is my reaction too. That said, I got the impression that it was as thinly veiled a way she could think of without exactly saying what Camille had said or done to totally fucking saying what Camille had said or done. I suppose she could have said, “Camille said racist shit,” but I viewed using her daughter as a…

Yeah, I assumed it’d be like “Bethenny Getting Married?” and then “Bethenny Ever After” and so on was. They get their first spinoff as a one-off: watch this city slicker Jax try to hang with these farming, god-fearing Kentuckians. Then on the same fish out of water theme you’ve got Jax tries to change diapers, Jax…

How dare you. Not two seasons ago, Jax rode off in a huff on a motorized cooler. The OGs are doing the Lord’s work.

You make a good point. I am always reluctant to define someone else’s experience, especially when the person is a potential victim. My first objective (and I think this is the social worker in me talking) is to let someone give voice to their own story; advocacy that steamrolls victims isn’t advocacy, it’s an ego trip.…

I can’t even hate-like or like-hate her. There’s just no there there.

It is indistinguishable from any finished HGTV reno, regardless of the show (fine.  You’d have to add some shiplap for it to be a Chip and Joanna job).

I was listening to Danny Pellegrino’s podcast with James Kennedy yesterday (ok, I’m just gonna go die after typing that sentence) and Danny asked about a rumor that the “OGs” are banding together to only film with each other and not the new crop that they’ve hired, presumably as a strategy to stay central to plots. I…

I actually chose the word carefully and specifically. There are problems with a couple getting together this way. Whether someone on the internet thinks I’m some tiptoeing progressive or anything else, I’m not going to declare someone a predator or his long-time wife a victim, thereby trying to deny what agency Celine…

I’ll engage this because I think it’s important to pull out some of the threads. Lots of very talented, very famous people leave formal education early. It is also a strategy of predators to separate their victims from formal systems and institutions that might otherwise serve as a safety net. But for a talent like…

Yes. It’s very hard to look at the facts of the situation and think, “This all sounds very troubling” without also telling the (potential) victim/survivor, “You were in love with an abuser—your abuser. Oh, you didn’t think you were abused? Well you were because I said so.” There are many elements of their relationship…

The thing with Celine is that the way her relationship with Rene continued and ended seems to have rendered how it began moot, but it was deeply problematic. He became her manager when she was *13* and he was *40.* He was not only much, much older but had incredible power as the manager of a very young girl from a…

I don’t think it’s just because she’s old, though I take your point. Any time a Justice is getting up there or facing issues that may hasten retirement, there are these kinds of conversations. It was clear that whoever was elected in 2016 would likely appoint 2 Justices, if not more, and it’s not uncommon for Justices…

Bunning later apologized if he had offended Ginsburg

THE GLORIOUS SHADE. “I have outlived him and what’s more, I am so indifferent to his existence (or, alas, lack thereof) that I don’t even recall the name attached to his now-decaying body.”