McKay

Michael looks exactly like Josh did as a little boy. I always thought he favored the Duggar side anyway, but Anna posted pictures of Josh at Michael's age. The resemblance is incredibly strong.

I think Jinger and Jennifer look like Josh, but I can't figure out which parent he got his looks from. He looked a lot like JimBob as a kid, but now I don't see a lot of either parent in him.

"Juddy" is indeed Justin. Not sure when that nickname came about, but it appeared recently and now they seem to use it a fair bit.

Every time I hear this, I wonder if they're watching the same show I am. The kids are hellions who are rude and dismissive towards anyone even slightly different than themselves.

Even if Jill wasn't lying about the beach incident, she was made to lie when asked directly which Duggar girls had been involved in a courtship. When Jordyn screamed "and Jill!" she was ignored, and Jill said "Oh, Jessa has, ask her." Lies of omission are still lies and I think it's fucked-up that a family that claims to follow the Bible would tell their child to lie because they need better show ratings. Their priorities are so screwed-up to me. And they're living in "the kitten house," so Jill is not at all free of JimBob, which likely means his influence as well. Derick is probably super-stressed right now; I can't imagine having your seven-year-old sister in law spending the night when you just got married two weeks ago even WITHOUT everything else going on in his life. As badly as I feel for Jennifer and Jill, I kind of feel worse for the guy. I'm sure he thinks Jill is worth it, but if my spouse's sister had tried to crash with me while dealing with a parent's cancer diagnosis and a new romantic relationship, I would not have been pleased.

If you asked me to describe Jessa in a few words it would be things like "snotty," "selfish" and "smug." "She's pretty" may be the best some of us can come up with (though like you, I don't find her all that pretty. I mean, she's pretty, but I think Jana is the beauty of the bunch.)

This totally nails why Duggar Time infuriates me so much. If the Duggars really want to get places on time, they can; we've seen them do it over and over. But only when it's things and people they can't push around. The airports won't hold planes for "Duggar Time," and they get there on time. But their friends and family, or small speaking engagements where everyone is in awe of them? They just can't be bothered. It does indeed show a lack of character.

A friend of mine says that JimBob looks like Howdy Doody fucked one of the lesser Kennedys. After I stopped laughing til I cried, I had to concede that that was the perfect description.

I indeed meant Zach Bates - the poster above me asked what he was up to lately. That's what he's doing last I heard. He seems like a hell of a dimwit, but New York City got three terms of El Bloombito; who knows what'll happen.

JimBob makes me uneasy. I feel like that aw-shucks-good-ole-boy facade is just that. I remember him talking about the rage issues he used to have as a young father, and I've never gotten the feeling he's really overcome them. Sure, he takes it out in "funny" ways like shoving Josiah during paintball, but I wouldn't leave my own kid alone with him or Michelle.

Mayor, last I heard.

It's funny/alarming to look back and realize that when Jinger was Jackson's age, she was already taking care of a large portion of the household. Meanwhile, Jackson is barely expected to tie his own shoes. Hell, compare Jinger in the first special to Jackson as he is now in general - there's been a steady pattern of dumbening (if I may borrow that "word" from Lisa Simpson) in this family.

Skyler Weiss is pretty cute and there have been rumors about him and Jinger for a while. Time will tell!

The difference is, you're aware of your son's issues even if you don't know what exactly they are yet. Josie's well-being is left up to the whims of Jesus. The kid had no sort of intervention, and never will.

JimBob said that if it were one of the boys who needed stitches for a cosmetic issue like Hannie did they would just leave it but for a "pretty girl like her" they had to.

I thought it wasn't that Jessa stole it, but that Jessa was picking on Jana relentlessly in general and Michelle told Jana to give her favorite thing to Jessa to make her stop. Jessa claimed it made it "not fun any more" to pick on her, but she was grinning like the Cheshire cat the whole time the story was being told, while Jana looked close to tears.

It's weird to me how Gothard hates "feminine" men, but the "manly men" seem so few and far between in these QF families. Nathan Bates is gayer than your average episode of Glee, and we've spoken at length about The Fabulous David Waller. Chad seems pretty average in that regard. And he seems like a nice enough guy. I have no clue how/why he puts up with that hideous pink bedroom - I know when you're newlyweds you put up with a lot, but two years from now I'd love his honest opinion on that room. (A bit selfish of Erin, too, if you ask me, to do up the bedroom the way SHE wanted it, rather than creating something they'd both like, but I digress.)

I'm guessing little Meredith - or, if they follow the Mackynzie naming style, Meredyth/Merydith - won't happen now that Vieira is no longer hosting the Today Show and they can't get publicity out of her allegience to them. I was grossed out majorly when Meredith told them she'd send them a good baby present if they named Mack "Meredith," but if they named her "Mary" they got nothing. Maybe she just didn't know that Mary was the baby's great-grandmother's name, but given how much time she spent up the Duggars' asses, I find it hard to believe that she never met Mrs. Duggar. Really, I wish they WOULD name one of them Mary. God knows if anyone deserves it, it's her. Maybe Mary Michelle...having to share a name with the mother-in-law would send Michelle through the roof. I'd love to see her try to pretend to be enthusiastic while seething. (I always enjoy seeing Michelle do that. Maybe I'm a mean person. Don't really care.) I expected nothing less from a Duggar-supported candidate than not knowing how elections and democracy actually work, and whining that it's a bad system when it doesn't go their way. That's Duggar behavior to a tee.

My take on Jessa continues to be that she thinks of herself as the perfect princess who can do no wrong. I'm sure if she saw someone dolled up like she gets, she'd smugly think "what a slut. Better yell Nike! so everyone takes note."

It goes: Jana, Jason, Jackson, Josie Jill, Joy, James, Jennifer Jessa, Jeremiah, Justin, Jordyn Jinger, Jedidiah, Johannah

Josh and Anna registered for candy, soda and beef jerky, so...yes.

She's probably largely trained, but she did crap her pants during one episode and didn't seem fazed at all, despite being three. Accidents happen, but a kid that old not giving any indication that she needs to go, and not seeming at all bothered by shitting herself, seems weird to me. It's not like they were doing something so fun that she would've put off going - I think they were cleaning up one of JimBob's disaster properties.

Jessa's heart doesn't seem any more into Ben than her head does. Maybe that's just how Jessa is on the outside, but I always expected all fundie girls would behave like Jill after meeting Prince Charming. After all, their entire life has been leading up to this.

I don't believe for a minute that all 2000 guests were invited back to the compound for the reception - which is the height of tackiness, IMO; the "A-list" for people worthy of being at the reception, and the "B-list" of people who are good enough to attend the ceremony - and bring a gift - but not anything else.

I just assume that's code for "pads in case she bleeds." God I hope that's all it is.