Zella

LOL I love this.

Yes I think you're right. The first time I heard of it was in 2003 when Reader's Digest published an article about former Steelers center Mike Webster. He had died the previous year and was the first NFL player officially diagnosed with CTE postmortem.

Yes! The rest of my family all drives either Toyotas (or Dodges). All the Toyota drivers concede my Honda is a smoother ride by far, but they always still go back to the Toyotas when it is time to buy. LOL My first 2 cars were Accords, but whenever I buy again--hopefully not any time soon--I'd definitely get another CRV. I don't like SUVs that are really big, so I like that the CRV seems sturdier than the car but doesn't feel like I'm driving in stilts.

I don't think it is necessarily a fundie trend, but I do know a fair number of people who make liking coffee their entire personality.

I've only ever owned Hondas and really love my CRV.

Heroes was my first experience with watching a show become a trainwreck in real time.

We had 70-something percent totality then, and my entire office I was working at at the time ran out there with eclipse glasses. My brother told me everyone at his shop was out there with welding helmets. LOLOL

99% here! They've predicted anywhere from 250,000 to 1,000,000 surging into Arkansas, so I'm not going to try to travel to an area of totality, though it's only about an hour or so away. But I have the day off and eclipse glasses. 😁 They keep wavering on whether or not we'll have clouds.

I found the premise so farfetched that I couldn't really get into it. I've read way too much Soviet history to suspend my disbelief.

I don't mind possums, but this is what I think of every time I see one. Which is usually at night when they're frolicking on my porch and somehow making as much noise as an axe murderer. https://the-toast.net/2016/05/12/everything-whats-wrong-of-possums-its-all-of-them/ Specifically "YOUR TAIL IS FULL OF THOUGHTS AND INTENTIONS AND YOUR MOUTH IS FULL OF MURDER"

That seemed to come up for multiple spouses in the marriage retreat episode. I think they were used to chaos. I also think it's why Jessa was billed the family organizer, even though she's really not a natural organizer. She just had a forceful enforcer personality, and I think that's how they view any imposition of structure or order, a necessary evil that has to be rammed down your throat.

I can totally buy that too! I also think that's why Jim Bob was so defiant. Josh undermines what he's built his entire family and identity on, so of course he's going to double down. That being said, I did find Jill's comments from her book about Michelle's irritation with Josh in the middle of the scandals interesting.

I agree, and I've wondered if this is part of why Michelle never attended the trial.

Yes I actually do have sympathies for families who find themselves in this situation. It would be heartbreaking as a parent to discover one of your kids is preying on your other children (I say that not as a parent but just as someone with basic levels of empathy). I do not, however, have sympathy for people who then continue to prioritize the child who's a predator at the expense of the other children. (And I firmly believe even the siblings who weren't attacked were still victims of the bizarre household rules the molestations led to, which then policed opposite-sex sibling interactions. That's not healthy or fair to the other brothers who didn't molest their sisters or their sisters who suddenly can't spend time with their non predator-brothers without their parents making it weird.) Nor do I have sympathy for people who also then continue to go on sanctimoniously making a career out of judging other people for wearing pants and peddling misogyny and child abuse under the veneer of godliness while this is going on in their own house. Both of which the Duggars did for years. I'm not judging them because they're Christian. I'm a believer too. But I think their behavior is noxious and they've well earned the scorn being heaped on them. They're reaping the consequences of their own actions.

And this is true of the entire family thanks to Jim Bob and Michelle too. They're the ones who kept presenting that their family was somehow more wholesome and godly than everyone else and also instilled Josh with the idea that he's superior as the eldest son, while they're sitting on top of his numerous sex scandals.

I've added James to my to-read list! Thanks for the recommendation! I'm currently reading Vanessa Chan's The Storm We Made about the Japanese occupation of Malaysia during WWII. It's not an easy read but is very good so far.

Yes! I am so excited to finally see the next season and glad they're able to bring both Rylance and Lewis back!

Wolf Hall won me over immediately with Damien Lewis as Henry for that reason. LOL

A few years ago, I was on an SNL binge and was reading about Belushi and Farley. I read a lot of pretty depressing nonfiction, but I finally just had to stop. It was too sad.

Yes that's where she talked about him throwing her cat during a fight.

I read where someone had Lucy enact her revenge upon Harve Miller. 😂😂😂😂

I'm glad it wasn't just me! 😂

Confession: I didn't realize Busfield and MG are married. I was wondering why Danny from The West Wing was at a LHOTP reunion and trying to figure out if he guest-starred on a random episode. 😂😂😂

Willie! Willie! I've seen a lot of people commenting that as an adult, he really resembles Richard Bull. That was good family casting!