[19 Things I Hate About You: How the Duggars Infuriate]

I wonder how they avoid music when they grocery shop? It makes me wonder if any of them turn on the radio in the car. They are a bunch of dullards. I was flabbergasted that even outside of the grip of Jim Bob and Michelle, Jill would rather listen to propaganda than venture outside her bubble and listen to music.It just goes to show how brainwashed she is.

They might have Sirius XM in their cars set to religious music stations and/or podcasts. Or Creed CDs (although maybe Creed is too secular for them, heh). Although I bet one of them, at least once, found themselves tapping their foot to a catchy pop song in the grocery store, with most of the innuendo going over their heads. And maybe one of them has a secret pop song they love without anyone else knowing.

 

Your last sentence is pretty grim - they're so clueless they don't know they're clueless.

 

 

[The Lonely Js Club: Jana, Jason, James, Jackson & Johannah]

One more article about Jana possibly heading to college.  Oh Jana, I hope it is true!  Follow your heart!

 

http://www.ibtimes.com/19-kids-counting-star-jana-duggar-reportedly-leaving-tlc-show-pursue-college-1844766

 

One of the most poignant posts I ever read on here was on the subject of Jessa's wedding. The poster said something like: "I wish we'd have seen Jessa moving in a dorm instead of getting married." I so agree, and that's why I hope this story about Jana is true. All of the kids deserve that experience of freedom, making friends, developing critical thinking, and realizing how big the world is from your hometown.

 

That said, this is probably not true. But we've read so many stories about Jana breaking free that I tend to think when there's smoke there's fire. Or maybe I'm wrong and websites have taken to making fan theories appear as fact.

[Rhodes Scholar Reporting the News Show Discussion]

Maybe I'm reading the wrong articles, but I fail to see what the big deal is about these emails.  Besides appealing to people who care about things like birth certificates, the Michelle Obama whitey video, and Sandy Hook being a hoax, I don't see how this story has legs.  If it wasn't this, it would just be another imaginary scandal.  I can never tell if Maddow just isn't that into Hilary or thinks it's just so boring there won't be a primary, but I've noticed her being negative about her before, but I don't watch enough.

 

I've been a bit disappointed at Rachel's low coverage on the email scandal (although she's covered it a lot more this week). Granted I hope it blows over soon, but she's covered it much less than I expected. I think it's a combination of all the things you mentioned - she thinks it's boring, a non-event, and I also think she wants it to blow over faster, which only happens when news anchors stop talking about it. Rachel keeps pointing out that Hillary's career trajectory is so unusual that it is hard to predict the upcoming race like we have in the past, which is comforting when I remember that it's been a very long time since two Democrats were elected in a row.

 

I too think it's much ado about nothing and I think it will blow over.

 

[19 Things I Hate About You: How the Duggars Infuriate]

Long time lurker, first time poster. A while back, Jill (or maybe it was Jessa) posted about some sermon she'd listened to while at the gym. It irks me that none of these kids will ever know about the power of great workout music. I couldn't get through a workout without SOME kind of fast-paced music. Sometimes you just need Kool and the Gang while sweating it out on the elliptical.

 

Which leads me to what gets on my nerves: the enormity of what they're missing. All the great secular music they're unaware of:  Prince, the Commodores, Rick James, Elvis, etc., etc., (just pulled artists off my workout playlist). Others have said it better in this thread, but a lack of curiosity about anything secular in the world is sad. They have no idea what it is to truly fall for a song on the radio, or have a perfect song to get them through a hard time, or dancing along to a good beat.

 

Then I thought about all the good literature and poetry they're missing out on (the Harlem Renaissance poets immediately come to mind) and felt even sadder.

 

As I write this I remember most of them play an instrument, so at least there's that. And so they must know some really great classical artists and their work. But sometimes you just want to party like it's 1999.