BabyVegas

Ok, the plotline about Jane getting sued. Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Morgan Stanley was a stripper. Meaning the statement was true, so I can't see how there would be any defamation. I can see the magazine settling to get rid of the problem, but I can't imagine the settlement agreement would require Jane to admit culpability. Richard seems like a terrible lawyer, tbh. On top of that, would the stripper be allowed to use the name Morgan Stanley when she's specifically playing on the Wall Street connection? For all its faults, though, the show has a fizzy, enjoyable charm. And the three leads have gorgeous hair.

Possible thread titles include "Is Pat Field OK?" or "Pat Field Is Playing An Extended 20 Year Joke On Fashion Y/N" because SERIOUSLY what in the name of Edith Head is she doing? Watching this show makes me question my sanity. I was not pleased with Josh this episode. Haven't been pleased with him for awhile, but telling Maggie, who he has met before, about Montana's little stunt and then acting surprised when Maggie showed up was veering into Too Stupid To Live territory. What did he think she was going to do? Send a tersely worded letter? An if he really had that big of an objection to it, then he should have held his moral ground. I find it awfully spineless that he pretended like he wasn't going to say anything and then said something anyway. I think he was right to tell Maggie, but he shouldn't have pretended everything was cool by going to the show with Montanamy.

But seriously. Coq au vin is a total mainstay classic. And even if he hadn't already known what it was, the name makes it pretty easy to guess. Rooster with wine. Riff from there. Yeah, I'm thinking this more and more. Between his arrogance and not knowing a basic cooking school dish, I have to assume that he was brought back purely to get a rise out of viewers.

I've always really enjoyed Jonathan Capeheart as a guest when he's been on and I thought he did pretty well as a sub-in for Joy this weekend, but I really wish he'd gone harder at the National Review guy. One thing I really love about Joy is that when people make claims, she doesn't hesitate to push back. It's one of the things that makes her show a must-watch for me. I thought Jonathan landed in the more typical pundit space of letting everybody have their say.

I wouldn't even kind of be surprised if she set up her segment exactly that way for exactly that reason. "I'm gonna bite! I'm gonna bite! I'm gonna take the bait you put out there and make a huge fool of myself on national TV...LOLNOPE." That segment felt like a threefer. First, she let her viewers know what was up with something that affects the credibility of the news media as a whole, second she sent up a flair to her colleagues, and third, she royally pissed off someone, somewhere, who thought she was about to buy it.

If we're wearing tin foil hats, I suspect Cory will win because he's got the credentials and he is appealing looks-wise. He'll probably get some YouTube show equivalent. Jason and Addie will round out the top three with Jason going onto all of FN's baking shows. Actually, if we get to vote them off, Food Network Star: Redemption Island could actually be a lot of fun. I would heartily watch a show where they read our reactions to people like Matthew. "Matthew, the audience thinks that you're too smug and that the only show you should be hosting is on public access cable at 3 am. Rusty, the audience has said that if they hear 'how ya dern' one more time, they will have a collective aneurysm. Matthew...you have received the most votes and will be going home this week."

I hate Matthew. I didn't watch whatever season he was on so I didn't come into this season with any pre-formed opinions, but now I want him off of my TV as quickly as possible. He's such a smug snake. He absolutely knew exactly what he was doing. In his talking head he said "I'm only trying to help" with that big shit-eating grin on his face. I'd be willing to bet that he was trying to throw Addie off or, at least, he was trying to show how energetic he was in direct comparison. Seriously, I cannot express how much I want him to leave. And his extremely irritating continued presence is causing me to hate the judges because they absolutely will not call him on it. They didn't say a thing about him calling Addie "babe" nor did they say a thing about him getting up in Addie's demonstration. If they were to give him a show, I would actively not watch it because his obnoxious and borderline sexist (if not actually outright sexist) behavior is just that irritating. With the exception of Jason, I don't like most of the male chefs. They all seem awfully confident for their truly mediocre skills. The only one who probably isn't mediocre is Corey, but he better learn how to turn that superiority factor way down. Sure, crescent rolls aren't exactly an ingredient you'd find in a Michelin-starred kitchen, but it was the hand he had been dealt. He should have shut up and worked with it without putting on a big production about it. On another note, Rusty is an insta-mute for me because I know I'm going to have to hear about fifteen thousand instances of him trying to make "how ya dern" into the next "bam." Every time I look at him I just see Guy Fieri with a Southern accent. Not a compliment. Perhaps I have some sympathy for Addie because I am also a more reserved personality type and sometimes that comes across as cold to people who are looking for someone super excitable. That being said, I also would never go on Food Network for exactly that reason. A refined and upper-crust entertaining style is fine. Hell, Addie's former employer made bunches of money doing just that. But it's not Food Network's energy and so even though I like her and I would watch her, she just isn't the right fit.

Because if it was a grease fire, that could have made it worse. Regarding the flaming car case, is engine washing a thing? Or even washing off the radiator? I've driven cars that were between 14-20 years old (and one of them, being a godforsaken VW, required me to pop the hood and look at the engine all the freaking time) and I never washed anything under the hood, nor was I ever told to wash under the hood. I would occasionally get bugs in the front grille on drives, but one turn through a car wash would get rid of that without getting anywhere near the engine. There are so many reasons why I loathe taking an Uber (I'll pretty much only take one if it's my only choice or if all of my friends are taking one) and the last case so perfectly demonstrated why. (Apropos story: I ended up having to take an Uber today because of a work thing and the driver had to slam the brakes to avoid an accident at least three times. I say again, I hate Uber.) Those two numbnuts could have easily avoided an accident by just chilling the Hell out but instead they ended up in court.

I finally figured out what was bothering me about Valentina. With the pageant queens that we've seen much of on this show, there's usually some kind of a wink or something to communicate that there's more there than just gowns and soundbites. Both Alyssa and Trinity were pageant queens and love 'em or hate 'em, they always seemed to be aware of where they were. Valentina often seems to act like she is always in a pageant, no matter what. Every time she talks it's a pageant speech. Every walk she does is a pageant runway. It just feels so superficial. I really saw it in her speech for Miss Congeniality. It just sounded so rehearsed and prepared. Maybe I'm just used to something different, but that's what I felt like this reunion really showed me about Valentina.

I am almost positive that at some point in my schooling I passed a state capitals test from Wakko's America. I still use it to help me remember all the states. Also, I want to know how they would update The President Song for this modern day.

Man, Valentina took her pageant personality a little too seriously when she was accepting that award. Her speech just felt super fake and there was something very tightly wound about her. Weirdly, I came out of this reunion liking Trinity a little less and liking Shea a whole lot more. I thought Shea was honest without using it as an excuse to be a bitch.

I don't know about that. I have ADHD and I deal with it by learning coping strategies and taking meds. I'd be more than willing to bet money, though, that the problem was that the son was an entitled little brat who the mother never kicked out of the nest and she's still taking care of him. It's entirely possible that there is some medical intervening cause, but not being a doctor I couldn't even begin to say. I'm basing my theory on the mother's reaction to her son not effortlessly succeeding. That price is definitely high for the general swimsuit market, but depending on the quality of the fabric and the design construction, I don't think it's totally out of line. Miraclesuit, which is a brand that advertises that their suits will make you look one size smaller, is in the $170-180 range. I'm just guessing here, but I imagine that part of the reason that Marcus found this company such a potentially lucrative investment was because options are much more limited for plus size women and so companies can charge more for their items. Didn't they say it would cost something like $18 to make the swimsuit? I might be doing my math wrong, but at $150 you're looking at margins in the mid 70s and I believe Marcus said that he would want about a 70% margin on a swimsuit. I think he increased the price because they were being made in America and the old price reflected being made overseas.

I thoroughly buy this. Kaep never made sense with the Seahawks. Just look at the way both sides handled the whole kneeling controversy last year. The Seahawks did the arms-linked thing and the whole team has a slightly conservative Jesus-y bent. Don't get me wrong, I actually think that Kaepernick could benefit from Carroll's coaching style and could have been a good choice, but the personalities never made sense to me. If the Seahawks were doing it as a PR move for the league, that would add several things up.

I really respect Marcus' business acumen. Lord knows he knows what he's doing. But I hated the new name for the company. I don't know if he focus grouped it or what, but it just seemed so basic and blah. And the son just seemed useless, like they were giving him a job in the family business because he couldn't hold it together. I don't know, I just got a weird vibe from him. I really liked the daughter, though. She clearly knew her business and had some good ideas. On another note, I really wanted that geometric printed bathing suit.

I'm sorry, but I have to take issue with this; I think it's a gross generalization. I have seen people of all ages act as though the world ought to cater to their wants and desires. I don't want to get into an issue of whose-generation-sucks-the-most, but I think it's safe to say that there are entitled assholes in every generation and a disproportionately large number of them show up on this show. Would this maybe fall under abuse of process? I'm not sure, but it seemed like the plaintiff in that case wasn't even trying to argue a factual dispute, he was just mad at the universe for not bending to his will and wanting someone else to take care of him. Normally I'm one who falls on the side that it's better for a person to have access to the courts even if it results in the occasional frivolous lawsuit, but this guy was way past the bounds of normal.

Thank you! I actually just took my contracts final today. I've been using TPC to practice my issue spotting and analysis skills. It works pretty well. I just missed the bit where they said it was a donation and not a sale price. That's what I get for not paying attention to the fact pattern!

I think I can actually answer this! (Bear in mind I am only a law student, not a real lawyer, so if there are any real lawyers in the house, they should feel free to correct me.) But, I believe JM was basing her decision on the concept of an express warranty. Any time you post an advertisement and make a description of what an item for sale is (such as what breed a dog is) you are warranting that you are selling what you say you're selling. If you describe the dog as a Labrador/whatever mix, you have now created a warranty that you are selling a Labrador/whatever mix. If the dog turns out to be a Shepard/whatever mix, you have violated that warranty. I think from a typical person's standpoint, if you're not buying the dog for show purposes, a mistake in the breed is no big deal. But from a legal standpoint, I think that's why JM did what she did.

You most certainly will not sit alone. I feel like so much of what bothers me about them is a sense of smug perfection that just probably isn't true. I vaguely remember something about them being in some kind of super conservative church. No idea if it's actually true, but I wouldn't be shocked.

See, I just wanted her ability to instantly zap myself anything I wanted, particularly the whole "getting ready for the day in a split second" thing and the teleporting. An extra hour of sleep every day sounds amazing. I covet the work life of so many TV people. Work for like, fifteen hours a week and yet still afford basically anything. And Supergirl's apartment. All that natural light and big, open spaces. I spend a lot of time coveting TV apartments, but Supergirl's apartment is probably my number one apartment want.

She's 24. I have no problem suspending a little disbelief or with an actress playing young, but at least keep it believable. Also yes, the actress playing Margo is easily the best thing about this show. I hope she stays on it for a good long time.

I don't care if he is the nicest guy on the planet Earth who spends all his free time rescuing kittens out of trees, I cannot stand Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank. He's unnecessarily rude, condescending, and smug. I hate that he "forbids" other Sharks from offering investments, as if he's the man in charge. Realistically, I know he's probably playing the Simon Cowell-type character, but at some point acting enough like an asshole makes a person functionally no different than being an asshole. I swear he is living proof that the "Canadians are nice" stereotype is BS. Honestly, it kind of makes me sad that he was in any way involved in some of my favorite childhood computer games.

Now that would be an interesting commercial. I've been hating Apple's new ad campaign as of late. I'm never an Apple stan in general, but their new commercials make me even more disinclined to buy their products. Particularly the one where they advertise that your iPad Pro won't get a PC virus. ...Of course it won't. Because it runs on iOS, not Windows. It'll get an iOS virus! Or the commercial about being able to sign documents on your iPad Pro so therefore you don't have to get caught printing documents for your new job at the printer at your old job. Okay, first of all, if you are printing docs like that at your current job, you're either super cocky or reckless. Second of all, most office-quality printers have a hold-print function. Third of all, you know what other tablets allow you to sign documents directly on them without printing? Literally any of them with capable software. In general I hate Apple's cult-y, overpriced stuff, but this is just so dang stupid. ETA: Oh! I forgot one other commercial I hate. I'll take a thousand "Flo" ads over a single of those "Progressive Box" ads. They're creepy and unfunny and they make me dislike Chris Parnell for voicing them. I mean, dude's gotta pay his bills, so I get it, but the ads are still maddening.

Okay, this commercial is an oldie but I saw either this one or a similar one on TV the other day. The basic concept is that they take a random DJ guy, cut his hair and throw him in a suit and now people would never guess that he's a DJ and not a financial planner. The message of the ad is supposed to be that your financial planner could be anyone and you'd never know it if this person isn't certified by their board. Perhaps I'm overreacting, but it seems like what they're saying is "hey, as long as you look like a stuffy white dude, people will believe anything!" and it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth to see.

If I see one more effing Chevy "focus group" ad on TV, I might go full Elvis. As it is, I was actually dissuaded from looking at Chevy when I was buying a new car, in part because their ads were so obnoxious that I refused to give them any money.

"I'm buggin' out, Liz Lemon!" comes in so handy for me. It's so applicable all the time.