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How could this plan possibly attract so many proponents? Have they all ingested too much of some toxic food additive or something?

Okay, good. I thought maybe I was the crazy one, thinking that Disney would run from them like the wind, for multiple reasons. My faith in my sanity, such as it is, is restored.

True. .... I was thinking more like, Would Disney really want these people -- because their followers maybe would hate Disney? (not to mention child molestation).... But I suppose that's silly, too!

Next project (a must-do): Get RuPaul to invite them.

Wow, hard for me to see a Duggar-Disney dating matchup. What with the long-running protests against Disney parks' openness to LGBT visitors.

So true. I guess celebrity's awfully seductive, given the quick assimilation of Derick and Ben. (one note -- It's Jason who fell into the pit. Cue: "There's a Jason?") .... I do wonder how much the younger kids who've not been on camera much respond to this. Are they just dying to be featured players, too, or do they mostly find it all a big bother? I'd kind of bet on the latter, actually. But maybe genetics are involved or something.

And they could also do the same thing staying under the radar. If they could get through their heads that you don't need to endlessly fame whore everythng they'd be much better off, but they sure haven't got that message yet. Wonder if they ever will, or whether they'll just become more and more embittered when they can't climb back into the brightest spotlight.

Just like Bart Simpson! God must be in favor of The Simpsons, too!

Well, now, there's a positive sign. Although I wish he'd stop praying about it and start thinking about it. Hard to imagine that God wouldn't approve of actually, you know, helping people. But he might also think it's a good idea to do some planning and executing on our own. God might like to leave the details up to people from time to time, Dillards. And without a lot of thought, this would be a really easy one to mess up. (I'm still Pollyanna -- don't think they mess up on purpose. I just think they're kinda stupid. And sloppy. Hope I'm at least right about their intentions.)

And maybe a vial of insulin.

Stale donuts and a new skit. This one'll be about pirates.

Krispy Kreme can definitely handle the Duggars. But I'm always amazed at how little the Duggs seem to understand the "optics" of any situation. At all. And despite their pretty long experience in politics and as media "stars." They're like a "how not to do it" book.

Have we ever seen the Duggars give anything away that wasn't free, or grifted, or shoddy, or off-price, or paid for by others? They're not givers. They're takers, their famous servants' hearts and hearts for the Lord to the contrary.

Remember the great big stuffed animal? Runs in the family.

Tomorrow those people may be Duggars.

Of course, Homer's a lot smarter and more sensitive.

Hey, maybe this explains Jill's problems with fractions. And James' problem with multiplication.

I've concluded he's an idiot, just like the rest of them.

Rapidly approaching "eligible for Medicare." Totally agree. My feeling about Priscilla and David, though, is that the "God wants us married" thing, could, maybe, kinda, sorta possibly help them make the best out of the bad situation in which they were forced into the marriage by others. The best thing, obviously, would be if that had never been done. And, to me anyway, the second best thing would be for them to have walked out when it did and gone on to live lives they chose. But I don't think they're people who would do that. So they'll have to make the best of a bad job, one way or another, I expect.

My bet is that they don't know the history of much of anything. The main teacher in this family has been Michelle Duggar, for whom the term know-nothing might have been invented. And she was succeeded by incurious bonehead Jessa, who got her education mostly (or maybe entirely) from Michelle Duggar. Pretty sure they don't know or care about the history of pirates or anything else.

Well, in a world of arranged marriages -- and that's the kind of world they live in -- it doesn't seem shallow at all to me. Other marriages in such world are made for money and power or snobbery or to keep from mixing with people from the next town over. A marriage made for God's purposes would have a lot more meaning than that.... And I would bet that they see God's purposes for the marriage as being something bigger than themselves and something that will be revealed down the line. Not that it will turn out that way necessarily, but I kind of think that, if you truly believe that, it's possible that it might. The mind can be a pretty wondrous thing sometimes. And, honestly, I don't really think that most of our reasons for marrying are so deep, anyway. We like somebody, we're sexually attracted, everybody else gets married so why wouldn't we, we want kids, this person has good earning capacity and it'll be nice to have two incomes and the slight tax advantage, we like the person's jokes. All those things are fine, but I don't see that they're really less shallow than marrying because God has a purpose for your doing so. How many people in any situation get married for some profound reason or envision their union as of much deeper value to them or to the world than just getting various itches scratched and doing what's habitual in an mostly-married society? I truly don't think it's all that many. Heck, I've known people who seem to be sincere in saying they're marrying because they're "soulmates" and the next thing you know they're dissing each other at a dinner out as if they were rival gang members. So the marriage of souls thing can turn out to be kind of shallow too.

Yeah, I'd go with this interpretation. I never had any social interchange with anyone besides my family either, and when I finally did beginning at age 18, it was a total revelation to me. Really a shock. I was terrible at it, too.

But I think now, thanks to the show, what they really really love, crave, need is being famous. .... And all the perks and freebies and leghumpers and helpful hangers-on that come with that. They may not realize that's what they're craving. But to go back to a normal life? They can't stomach it. They think they're the it people and they think they'll just die if everybody doesn't view them that way. Celebrity feels like food to them now. That's my conclusion anyway.

Well, they didn't realize how they were humiliating the people in El Salvador with their shoddy and incomprehensible skit. So .... I think other people are pretty much props in their lives rather than anything real. ... Not surprising with Jill, I guess, since she and her siblings have never been anything but props in their parents' lives and they've been encouraged to think of everybody else as props in the whole Duggar extravaganza. But Derick really makes me wonder. I would think his parents might have instilled a little more awareness.

I think it may just be media inertia. 24 hours a day of potentially limitless online space to fill, and they've been doing the Duggars for a long time, so they can write those stories supercheaply. Takes about 10 minutes maybe. And it still gets hits. To fill the same space with something different requires somebody to go look for something different and report on it and write it. .... And because it's different, it probably won't get as many clicks. And fewer clicks for an expenditure of more employee time and dollars is not good. .... That's what I'm telling myself anyway.