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The Coogan Law possibly covered Alana’s earnings from her appearances on Dancing With the Stars Junior and The Masked Singer, as both were filmed in California

Speaking of the J&K tinderbox house with a blocked rear exit, I live approximately 3.4 miles from the house in CT where the four young children burned to death last week. When the fire chief announced that the back door of the duplex had been blocked by a kitchen table, my thoughts went to those asses and their hutch. The stupidity of some people boggles my mind. I pity poor Gideon with those two as parents.

ETA Better yet, just keep one’s children off of reality tv.

Jim Bob Duggar is living proof why the Coogan Law should apply to child “performers” on reality tv. What a horrid human being.

Why and what would a 4 year old child even know about Nazis?

Phillip’s room makes me sad. All the furnishings look as though they were salvaged from a dirty dank basement. A brown tv tray. A brown folding chair. A desk resembling those found in a 1960s elementary school. Even the coverlet on his bed is worn and appears to have a hole in it. Hey Jillybean! You could have shown some enthusiasm for Phillip’s calling by God and hauled your selfish ass to Target or Walmart to help an excited Phillip frugally outfit his first dorm room like millions of young adults do each year. Your children are seemingly never allowed “normal” experiences or nice things. That poor boy.

BME just sucks as a mother and a human being. I will never understand why she treats her “blessings” as badly as she does. She cannot even be bothered to make the slightest effort. My mother made sure my brother and I even had birthday cakes delivered to us while we were 900 miles away at university. When our son started university (three degrees ago), my husband and I would make the four to five hour drive to celebrate with him. The year we were in China and couldn’t be with him, we sent him a cake from Milk Bar. This wasn’t effort. It was love.

Whatever happened to good old fashioned playing with one’s loose tooth with one’s own tongue and allowing said tooth to fall out organically. No pain, very little blood, and (even better) no tears.

Not defending the Rods by any means but one is never too old for an egg hunt. My neighbors hold two hunts every year, one for the younger nieces and nephews and a second one for the older teens and adults. It is absolutely hilarious to witness with everyone laughing and having the time of their lives. Our son turned 32 today (Easter Sunday) so my husband and I gave him his own egg hunt to celebrate since it was the first time since 1950 that Easter fell on April 9. An Easter birthday egg hunt just seemed appropriate. And yes, we were all greatly entertained and amused wandering around out property laughing for a good hour.

Should someone tell them the 12 days of Christmas is the period running from Christmas Day until the Feast of the Epiphany, December 25 thru January 6? They appear to be celebrating the run up to Christmas with a truncated version of the traditional Advent calendar. Better question is why do I even care what a Duggar does?

Kaylee and Jonathan’s house makes me sad.

The correct spelling for the expression describing someone overcoming obstacles is a trouper, not trooper or Jill’s tropper. It drives me batty when people use the incorrect homonym. Describing someone as a “real trouper” stems from the term for a performance company, a troupe. The trouper is the performer able to go on regardless of circumstances, as in the show must go on. Hence, a real trouper. This grammar PSA is courtesy of the self-appointed head of the grammar police.

Wow! A Duggar is pregnant. And in other breaking news, water is wet.

Poor Philly looks like he is wearing a Hunk hand-me-down. It appears appropriately sized to fit that POS.

The opening of the wedding video is reminiscent of the scene in Gladiator where Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) is hallucinating from his infections while he is being transported to auction by the slaver. He is dreaming of his murdered family while walking thru a wheat field, running his land over the tops of the wheat. Complete rip-off from the Ridley Scott epic.

Hey Jer, if you going to try to impress the internet with the illusion of giving a ring from Tiffany, at least fake it with an actual used box off eBay. The true ring presentation boxes from Tiffany are rounded on all corners with the hinge on the bottom third of the box. The boxes are also made of leather, not cardboard.

Those earrings frighten me.

So you are in Harrisburg. Yay?

Seriously? Keeping your used pee stick? Saving a hospital band from what? An ER visit or outpatient D&C? What the living hell! I lost two pregnancies both at five months (fetal demise) and saved nothing from either. Between these two pregnancy losses, we had a wonderful, healthy baby boy. Thirty-two years later, I couldn’t even tell you in what month the first one occurred. I only remember the second one 25 years ago because it was removed on Bastille Day. Why would I want to forever memorialize and remember two harsh days out of a lifetime filled with joy, adventure and naturally some sadness. Perhaps I am just pragmatic, but just breathe in, breathe out, move on.

My favorite part of this shit show is when Whitney is opening her “birthday presents” from the French man. How cool that he popped into Walmart to buy the “My French Recipe” brand French macarons baking mix, retail price $17.56. That was way too easy to find. Pause the DVR, google the info that her chubby little finger wasn’t covering, and voilà!

Lunch break from what?

What sort of idiot signs a recently turned 4 year old child up for boxing. Age 5 or 6 is the recommended age to BEGIN boxing training. Most equipment won’t even properly fit a child of 4. Sparring is NOT recommended until a child is at least 10-12 years old.

First question is who took the picture? Second and better question is why? For the love of sweet baby jeebus, just why?

I tried, REALLY tried, to watch Jessa’s video. Her fundie obsession with the Bible and “God’s word” makes feel so sorry for her kiddies. All they appear to have in their lives is Jesus, Jesus, and more Jesus. Every moment of their lives seems to be governed by the fear of veering away from “God’s word” and end up burning in hell. We (as bad Catholics) raised our son with the common sense ethics of the golden rule and a liberal secular education. He is a kind, thoughtful PhD candidate that has never smoked, drank, used drugs or broken any of the Ten Commandments. See, Jessa? There ARE other ways to successfully raise and nurture a child that work without instilling fear and creating (IMHO) an unhealthy obsession with religion.

Not to beat a dead rocking horse but they actually appear to be eating at a Longhorn Steakhouse. Longhorn serves a small whole wheat loaf on a cutting board with the large steak knife for cutting the bread. Texas Roadhouse serves the most delightful fluffy yeast rolls in a basket with a small disposable plastic container of cinnamon butter. Austin appears to be tucking into a piece of whole wheat.