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I think I figured out why Jedidiah drives me nuts. She yells over everyone and is very strident. I generally like New York accents (originally a New Yorker), but hers drives me insane when she is yelling. It's so very FOX NEWS of her. Sunny, on the other hand, occasionally speaks over the others, but she doesn't raise her voice. Plus she is able to put her point into very few words, and can be devastating that way. When someone yells, it stops me from hearing what they have to say.

Stacy London has had enough?

As a proud former UCLA Bruin, it aggrieved me to see "We Are The Sons Of Westwood" be a triple stumper.

This didn't gel for me... too much cuttage. C'mon, BBCA, stop chopping it down to 45 minutes, and if you do, do you have to put in "advance snippets" of what's after the commercials to burn up even more time? It just felt like most of the show was missing. And Rebel Wilson was completely superfluous. I would have loved to have seen a whole show of the AbFabs, joined by Iggy and Josh for the last 20 minutes.

Back when BBCA used to show very good British TV, I adored Love Soup with Tamsin Greig. It was such a quirky, funny show that I always expect her to be exceptional, and I'm always disappointed. Not that she's not a perfectly lovely person, but it's typecasting on my part.

Well, she did start out with a story about Jeffrey (now 11) having a crush on a girl and allegedly calling her his soulmate, and Sherri did her usual schtick about, "No, your soulmate is your mama," and I was rolling my eyes and thinking, Here we go again. But when it came down to game playing, she really made it about her teammate winning money, was calm, professional, and played well, which isn't easy. It made me think she may be putting on more of the shtick than I realize and there may actually be some substance under there.

I came here to post the same thing about Sherri. She played well, and that required a lot of smarts, of a specialized sort. Seeing Anthony Anderson play the not-really-very-good-player role that I expected of Sherri was surprising, and lowered my opinion of him. Gotta give credit where credit is due. Nice job, Sherri Shepherd!

I lived in New York in the early 1970s, when it was one of the few states to have legal abortions pre-Roe v. Wade. (And, WOW, a lot of young teenaged relatives and friends of friends came from out of state to stay with my family for a week at a time.) I believe the law stated that an abortion could be performed only if the life of the woman was endangered, so whispered folklore was passed from woman to woman that the key phrase was "If I have to carry this pregnancy to term, I will kill myself." I was too young to have sex at that point, but that phrase was drilled into my head by many adults, including my pediatrician, just in case the need should ever arise. I can't believe we're back to this point in the United States.

Paula actually said, "Trump stepped in it [trouble] once," and the audience actually groaned. FFS, is she being told to be the contrarian, and can she possibly believe the crap she's spouting? She's like Baghdad Bob, the Iraqi information minister.

That's how I feel about Gilbert Gottfried. Won't watch his segment.

If you watch the show on Chicago station WLS, Jeopardy will be seen at 2:05am.

I was completely obsessed with the movie Thomasina when I was a kid (back in the Dark Ages when we had to beg any sympathetic relative to take us to "the show" instead of buying Disney movies to watch infinite times at home), so yesterday when I learned it was based on a book by Paul Gallico, it made me very happy. Hello, Chicago Public Library?

Whoopi was inadvertently honest today when she said, "It's easier to yell than to listen." Of course she was putting down other people who do that. Look in the mirror, Ms. Goldberg.

The best parts of Joy moderating are the lack of the afore-mentioned bellowing of WELCOME TO THE VIEW, Y'ALL for ten minutes, AND the fact that Joy doesn't pitch a fit when the voice in her ear tells her to go to commercial. Whoopi is THE worst moderator in the history of the show.

What confused me was that people with duct tape over their mouths is the symbol of the NO H8 pro-LGBT movement. It symbolizes both SILENCE=DEATH and the fact that initiatives like Prop 8 were meant to silence the voices of LGBT people and their allies. Of course Raven totally misunderstood the symbolism, if indeed she was ever aware of it. Still scratching my head how she thought covering her own mouth with tape somehow translated into "I'm tired of hearing people talk about this subject." A rocket scientist, she is not.

Only on The View, a TALK SHOW, does one of the panelists tape her mouth closed because she's tired of OTHER PEOPLE talking. There's a lot of nonsense in that sentence.

It seemed to me that Raven didn't want the possible same-sex orientation of the shooter to be the cause of the massacre. So she was going to deny and throw shade any other way. But, Raven, it is important why this happened. Because we need to figure that out and try to prevent it from happening to other people in the future. No one is condemning him for having same-sex attraction (except his father). Facts are facts -- the guy visited the club a lot over the past three years and was online in gay chat rooms. The old Whoopi chestnut of "we weren't there and he's not around to defend himself" doesn't hold true because the guy left a huge digital bread trail, something Raven of all people should be able to appreciate. Sweeping the reasons under the rug because it makes you uncomfortable doesn't make sense. Figuring out why this happened is just common sense. More important is, what will we as a society do about it when we do figure out what made him snap?

I just keep thinking, 50 people died, and thousands of people had their lives changed forever, because this guy couldn't face his own orientation? If he went to that club for three years, then he saw much more than the alleged "kiss between two men" that supposedly triggered this slaughter. I know this shooting has been a tabula rasa for everyone's preconceived notions about a lot of things, so I realize I am showing my bias as well, but it seems to me that if all the LGBT hate and rhetoric were toned down, and politicians and social leaders stressed love instead of judgment, we would all be better off. "I have same sex attraction." "I have blue eyes. Let's go get coffee."

Tonia -- rhymes with Phone-yah. Apparently my namesake spelled it the same way, but pronounced it TAHN-yah. I find myself liking Hunter because I think he looks like a young Bill Pullman.

A sensitive show opening from a show that has been tone-deaf on many occasions. No music, no walk-out to applause, no bellowing of WELCOME TO THE VIEW, Y'ALL ten times. I am impressed with whoever made that call.

Of course, his idea of "toughness & vigilance" is using nuclear weapons against terrorists, and killing their wives and children. Exactly when did we go back to the Dark Ages? Incidentally, the Orlando terrorist was born in New York City, just as Trump was (and I was). Who, exactly, do we bomb, Donald? Can't we be sad for 24 hours before we all use the deaths of innocents as fodder for our political agendas? So sick, and so sad.

I'm working on my laptop and listening to the show in the background and I notice Jedidiah (who names their daughter Jedidiah, which was the name King Solomon was given at birth?) has something about her speech that can't be understood unless you're looking at her. I don't know if she's speaking too fast or what, but it's aurally distracting.

Well, the last person to tell me my name was exotic was the elderly female librarian in my mom's tiny Illinois town. It was pretty funny - she kept rolling it off her tongue because she liked saying it, rather like Alex did last night. (Gotta say my parents came up with a good name, which is the only "exotic" thing about me. I'm about as Midwestern as cornfields and funnel cakes.)

My name is often referred to as exotic -- although I am most assuredly not -- and I've never taken it as anything but a compliment. (The embarrassing truth is that I am named after my father's favorite stripper during his Navy days in Norfolk, Virginia.) Is exotic considered politically incorrect?

Since the Cubs were once known as the White Stockings, I was sure that was the answer. I felt stupid when it was revealed, because I knew that the Reds are the oldest franchise in MLB. (They used to always participate in the first game of each season, a nice little tradition until the game went totally corporate a few years ago, and stunts like having Opening Day happen in Japan or Europe took over.)