found snark at the NYTimes

[hammercock]

From Neil Genzlinger's piece about the "Real Housewives" franchise of TV series comes this lovely bit:"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on," the great religious scholar P. J. O'Rourke wrote in Rolling Stone in November 1989. "And when

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[ron_newman]

I've never seen this show and hopefully never will, but I do remember when Bravo was considered the classy high-culture channel. What happened?

[achinhibitor]

I assume they wanted to make more money.

[lioritgioret]

I think you left out the second most important observation (the evil Mr. O'Rourke being the first): “What you put in your mouth: it’s important,” Kathy says at one point in the premiere, in what passes for wisdom on this show. So is what you put in your brain.

[intuition_ist]

yeah, it's still kind of amazing to me that "real" in reality TV has come to mean "2 nanometers from completely fake". i can't see the title for any of these shows without putting "real" in quotes.

[browngirl]

That is some solid core snark, there.

[awfief]

Not for nuthin' but the real housewives of NJ is filmed one town over from where bikergeek and I grew up. In fact, my twin brother married his high school sweetheart, who lived in that town, 2 doors down from Phil Sims.

That being said, NOBODY's parents were like that growing up. I mean, seriously.