Big Edie had Borderline Personality Disorder written all over her. I believe that Little Edie's neuroses came from being raised by someone with unrecovered BPD. I've seen this in my own family. It's not pretty and there's rarely ever hope for them.

That page links to another romance novel by Chris Harrison. Perhaps a common name or will this be his second?

The 1%: They're just like us!

Believe me, they are that stupid. I work for one of the hospitals that has been treating Ebola patients brought to the US. This fall they fired someone for talking about one of the Ebola patients on their blog. And how did the hospital find out about their blog? They bragged about it at work.

I am not in any way trying to defend TLC for coming out with this show as they specialize in this type of exploitative documenting of people's lives, but is this show really that horrendous? If they were promoting such a lifestyle (denying one's true self for the sake of their judgmental community) and painting it in…