How 'bout this for an opening monologue:
Because I love and respect my wife, whom I have not just embarrassed, but hurt deeply with my betrayal of our marriage commitment, I apologize. To all the women with whom I abused my positional power beyond the boundaries of a professional relationship, I apologize. Because my conduct is as reprehensible as the actions of the person who used my inexcusable behavior to extort money from me to keep it hidden, I apologize for making this very private situation into a public spectacle.
This needs to become a private conversation that I have with my wife, not share with an audience, so I am discontinuing any public comment about the situation. I also will no longer use this event as the basis for comedy as I have finally come to my senses and realize that this is no laughing matter.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Is Doing Something Better Than Doing Nothing?
The rush-rush emergency supplies of anti-viral nose spray and injections to protect against the predicted world-wide H1N1 flu pandemic are on the way across the USA, paid for courtesy of the federal government, which to many recipients means that it's FREE! My county has already received 2-1/2 billion dollars from the federal government to distribute the doses to eligible recipients. Whoopee! The targeted demographic is individuals between the ages of 2 and 49; new-borns aren't as much at risk because they are usually cared for in a more isolated environment and senior citizens (which I guess means anyone age 50 and older; sorry those who think that 50 is the new 40) require an injectable dose, rather than a nasal spray, which takes longer to bring to market than a nasal spray.
Why am I concerned that this rush to protection may not be all that it's hyped to be? Primarily because the vaccine has been developed since April: that's 5 months to research, develop, test, approve, package, and distribute a drug, and that's simply not enough time. We have drugs that took a decade to develop that have caused irreparable harm to consumers and death for some victims of the side-effects of the drugs. A TV viewer cannot spend an hour in front of the flat screen without being subjected to ads run by legal firms that target the failure of popular medical treatments for common ailments: call 1-800 Sue the Bastards and we'll both make big bucks. If we don't win, you don't pay, and we wouldn't waste our time if we weren't going to win.
If every school-age child is mandated to receive the H1N1 anti-viral and the rest of the population is frightened into believing that death is imminent without H1N1 flu protection this year, the potential for harm is magnified beyond what anyone can imagine. If it works, great, but when it doesn't, here come the personal horror stories, the deaths, and the inevitable lawsuits, with the harm of using the vaccine out-weighing the good idea behind it.
A friend who is driving cross-country called her physician to ask if there was anything she should do before leaving: she has issues with chronic back pain and her question targeted that condition. Her doctor, however, advised her to be protected against H1N1 as she's in the target demographic, with a pre-existing medical condition that adds to her risk assessment, and she gave in to his persuasive argument about her potential exposure to H1N1. Her reaction: she's never been so sick from a flu shot! She's used to maybe having a reaction to a flu shot, but she said this reaction was worse than just having the flu and dealing with it: 5 days in bed, sicker than a dog.
We require two flu shots this year: the regular flu shot and the H1N1 anti-viral spray or injection (age-based). Nowhere can I find publications that discuss the interaction between these two products, which concerns me because many patients react to the annual flu shot and many others are going to react to the H1N1 anti-viral. What's going to happen with two vaccinations fighting internally to protect me from the annual flu season? Will they exacerbate the onset and severity of flu, leading to a higher mortality rate, or cancel each other's effectiveness? Can anyone answer that question?
Flu kills, regardless of what we do to protect ourselves in an attempt to prevent the bug from using us as its host. In what are commonly called third-world nations, the everyday living conditions almost guarantee that there will be more victims in those demographics than in a country that has one of the best medical care systems in the world. It makes sense to protect high-risk individuals, but I'm not sure it makes as much sense to target all US citizens because the basic health threshold is higher in this country. I'm not aware of national panic in other nations, so what do they know that we don't know?
Doctors are charged to do no harm, so medical professionals believe that doing something is better than doing nothing, especially when the federal government is paying for the vaccine. I lack faith in the pharmaceutical industry and do not believe that it's beneficial to use the hastily-concocted H1N1 vaccine. When the list of contra-indications and possible side effects require a page of disclaimer, doing something cannot be better than doing nothing.
Why am I concerned that this rush to protection may not be all that it's hyped to be? Primarily because the vaccine has been developed since April: that's 5 months to research, develop, test, approve, package, and distribute a drug, and that's simply not enough time. We have drugs that took a decade to develop that have caused irreparable harm to consumers and death for some victims of the side-effects of the drugs. A TV viewer cannot spend an hour in front of the flat screen without being subjected to ads run by legal firms that target the failure of popular medical treatments for common ailments: call 1-800 Sue the Bastards and we'll both make big bucks. If we don't win, you don't pay, and we wouldn't waste our time if we weren't going to win.
If every school-age child is mandated to receive the H1N1 anti-viral and the rest of the population is frightened into believing that death is imminent without H1N1 flu protection this year, the potential for harm is magnified beyond what anyone can imagine. If it works, great, but when it doesn't, here come the personal horror stories, the deaths, and the inevitable lawsuits, with the harm of using the vaccine out-weighing the good idea behind it.
A friend who is driving cross-country called her physician to ask if there was anything she should do before leaving: she has issues with chronic back pain and her question targeted that condition. Her doctor, however, advised her to be protected against H1N1 as she's in the target demographic, with a pre-existing medical condition that adds to her risk assessment, and she gave in to his persuasive argument about her potential exposure to H1N1. Her reaction: she's never been so sick from a flu shot! She's used to maybe having a reaction to a flu shot, but she said this reaction was worse than just having the flu and dealing with it: 5 days in bed, sicker than a dog.
We require two flu shots this year: the regular flu shot and the H1N1 anti-viral spray or injection (age-based). Nowhere can I find publications that discuss the interaction between these two products, which concerns me because many patients react to the annual flu shot and many others are going to react to the H1N1 anti-viral. What's going to happen with two vaccinations fighting internally to protect me from the annual flu season? Will they exacerbate the onset and severity of flu, leading to a higher mortality rate, or cancel each other's effectiveness? Can anyone answer that question?
Flu kills, regardless of what we do to protect ourselves in an attempt to prevent the bug from using us as its host. In what are commonly called third-world nations, the everyday living conditions almost guarantee that there will be more victims in those demographics than in a country that has one of the best medical care systems in the world. It makes sense to protect high-risk individuals, but I'm not sure it makes as much sense to target all US citizens because the basic health threshold is higher in this country. I'm not aware of national panic in other nations, so what do they know that we don't know?
Doctors are charged to do no harm, so medical professionals believe that doing something is better than doing nothing, especially when the federal government is paying for the vaccine. I lack faith in the pharmaceutical industry and do not believe that it's beneficial to use the hastily-concocted H1N1 vaccine. When the list of contra-indications and possible side effects require a page of disclaimer, doing something cannot be better than doing nothing.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Smokin' HOT!
Talk about HOT, HOT, HOT! Whether it's the neon pink Breast Cancer Awareness spots of color on the uniforms or Bret Favre schoolin' his former teammates about playing some Monday Night Football, this is one of the best halves of football I've ever watched.
The NFL is totally on the leading edge of cancer awareness: thanks, guys, for honoring Breast Cancer Awareness month. It's important for all of us to know that early detection can make the difference between victim and victory in the battle with cancer, and all that neon pink is sending a message world-wide.
However, if that damned announcer marvels one more time that Favre is FORTY next week, as if he should be in his rocker or on his death bed, I swear I'm gonna write another nasty letter! Favre is doing it his way all over the field: stop harpin' 'bout anythin' but the FOOTBALL!
OKAY, the game is over and it was intense. If a quarterback is going to retire, THIS is the legacy he wants to leave as he walks off the field. Way to go, Favre.
The NFL is totally on the leading edge of cancer awareness: thanks, guys, for honoring Breast Cancer Awareness month. It's important for all of us to know that early detection can make the difference between victim and victory in the battle with cancer, and all that neon pink is sending a message world-wide.
However, if that damned announcer marvels one more time that Favre is FORTY next week, as if he should be in his rocker or on his death bed, I swear I'm gonna write another nasty letter! Favre is doing it his way all over the field: stop harpin' 'bout anythin' but the FOOTBALL!
OKAY, the game is over and it was intense. If a quarterback is going to retire, THIS is the legacy he wants to leave as he walks off the field. Way to go, Favre.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Anyone Could Be Me
Perhaps it’s part of the natural winding down process that occurs as I age, but there has been a feeling of oh, well about who I am and what I have accomplished with my life. There is such a long line of others waiting to take my place that there is an overwhelming feeling that anyone could be me. This week, my horoscope focused on the feeling in a way that says it how I think it:
Your horoscope for October 2, 2009
You may feel you can no longer explore your inner feelings, but alas, dear Liza, you must persevere. You have a tremendous capacity to bury problems deep, and you obliviously go through life surfing on top of them. It is true that this strategy of yours allows you to remain in a good mood. But you are never in such a good mood as to be profoundly happy, wouldn't you agree? (msn.com)
I do bury problems deep because that’s part of who I am from way back when. In my family, we never talked about pretty much anything because why waste the time, the effort, the energy when it had to be spent on so many other aspects of life? When there are 6 children and one working parent, who cares about what isn’t when there is so much that is to consume the hours/days/ weeks/months/ years? And that cycle continues: there are very few people with whom I share my self, rather than my persona. I have created a cocoon around my self, but eventually that covering either breaks open to reveal a metamorphosis or it disintegrates and returns to nature: ashes to ashes, dust to dust. It feels as if my cocoon is weathering away, and I’m not sure that I’m ready to live without, rather than within.
People have expectations based on their expectations, not on who we really are, and once others have created us in their image, that’s all they want to see and/or know. As long as I present the appropriate persona to the appropriate person at the appropriate time, we go along to get along; however, when I stop being who they have defined me to be, it’s time for us to go our separate ways, and that has happened several times during the past year. After trying to be who others needed me to be, I saturated myself with a falseness that I could no longer sustain. One day, it was all gone. I could no longer bite my tongue so I didn’t say what I was thinking, but when I spoke up, the other persons were incredulous that I didn’t agree with them and am willing to walk the rest of the way without them as part of my life.
It surprises me that everyone else in the world is personally empowered to speak his/her own mind, especially as it pertains to who I am and how I should live my life, but I’m not allowed to do the same – even when it’s about my own life! You cannot take from a person for years and then refuse to accept that they, too, have needs – needs that you refuse to accommodate. As long as I follow someone else’s script, my life goes along more evenly. As my horoscope puts it, however, I am “never in such a good mood as to be profoundly happy,” and I have finally come to the stage in my life when I want to be “profoundly happy.”
I just have absolutely no idea whatsoever how to make that happen, which is a sad commentary about my inner resources.
I can do a Letterman, I can admit that I have done horrible things in my life that if I could undo them, I would, but I’m too pragmatic to fool myself, much less anyone else. I did learn from the mistakes and have tried valiantly not to repeat them, but it’s the mistakes that wake me up in the middle of the night. I do live my life in a world of “if only” because that’s part of who I am, too. What’s that perspective that has found popularity with the younger "me" generations: it’s all about me, so whatever I did/do is okay and the rest of the world just has to deal with it because I’ve moved on? See, that’s not who I was/am/want to be, but it may become who I am as my protective covering continues shedding itself.
I do take it personally when I give my best and it’s thrown back at me in meanness, in disrespect, in anger: how can I not take it personally when it’s aimed at me? I know that many people displace their own life frustrations onto others so they can walk away from them, but I seem to be a target more often than others, probably because I present a self to the world that says, “I can take it.” That’s not always true, however, and all the attacks, both personal and professional, have taken a toll that is just now beginning to overwhelm me. The military talks about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for those who live through the trauma of war, but I’ve lived through another war: my life, which has included 35 years of accepting responsibility for thousands of students, their parents, and colleagues who sloughed off their issues, situations, dysfunctions, and inability to cope with life onto my shoulders.
Yes, I’m serious. In an office setting, I’d never have to assume personal responsibility for the function of the workplace, as well as the individual dysfunctions of the customers who occupy the seats for an hour each day, five days a week. Do the quick math: 35 years of at least 200 students a day, and then add a parental unit to each of those students, as well as colleagues who picked the wrong job and hate what they are doing, as well as administrators who could not teach, so moved to the front office to tell those of us who can do our jobs well how to do it their way, never realizing that THEY FAILED: we haven’t.
That’s PTSD.
Yes, my strategy allows me to remain in a good mood, but it’s not a place where I feel good either about myself or about others. It used to be that I could not wait to go to work, to share my knowledge, my expertise, my experience in the classroom because my goal was to help students become better users of their English skills. A poorly-written essay reflects badly on my teaching, so I take the time to work one-on-one to help the student do a better job, which used to be enough. Not any longer: the response to a bad grade is that I personally want to hurt the student’s chances at a future that includes a good career with a great salary. It’s not professional for the student: it’s personal; but for me, it can only be professional because I’m not allowed to have it be personal.
That’s PTSD.
Life is on-going PTSD, one way or another, and we all have to learn how to cope with what is, rather than what we wish life could be, but we also have to learn how to move past where we are to closer to where we want to be. I cannot assume that “someone” is going to make my life better, so I have to do it myself. However, before I can engage that process, I have to put in place a goal, a vision of where/when/why. If I just start doing whatever I want, chances are I’ll make more bad decisions than good ones, which means spending time undoing that which doesn’t work so I can continue with what does work, a meaningless activity of nailing one foot to the floor and going around and around in circles, all the while thinking that I’m making progress toward whatever.
I want to be me, whoever that is: the good, the bad, the ugly. I don’t want to live the rest of my life in a continual process of self-censoring, while being barraged by other people’s dysfunction. I don’t want to deal with the people who ascribe meaning to words based on their interpretation of them, rather than on what was said in the course of a simple conversation. I don’t want to deal with people whose lives are imploding and expect me to accommodate the process. I don’t want to answer either my phone or my doorbell unless I’m in the frame of mind to deal with whoever’s there.
Sometimes, I just don’t want to deal with any of it – and that should be okay with the rest of the world. It should be my decision whether to go through the remainder of my life surfing across the problems or dealing with them head-on, as well as deciding whether I want others to think I’m in a good mood when I really want to be profoundly happy.
Yesterday, while watching an episode of one of the Law/Order shows during my sick day, a scene featured an actor accused of murder. His assessment: you can arrest me, but you'll never get a conviction because I'm the star of the show and without me, there is no show. I think that just maybe once or twice I'd like to be the "star" of my show and KNOW that no one can replace me, but deep down inside, anyone could be me. If I want that to be different, then I have to change to make it different. Let's see if I'm up to the task!
Your horoscope for October 2, 2009
You may feel you can no longer explore your inner feelings, but alas, dear Liza, you must persevere. You have a tremendous capacity to bury problems deep, and you obliviously go through life surfing on top of them. It is true that this strategy of yours allows you to remain in a good mood. But you are never in such a good mood as to be profoundly happy, wouldn't you agree? (msn.com)
I do bury problems deep because that’s part of who I am from way back when. In my family, we never talked about pretty much anything because why waste the time, the effort, the energy when it had to be spent on so many other aspects of life? When there are 6 children and one working parent, who cares about what isn’t when there is so much that is to consume the hours/days/ weeks/months/ years? And that cycle continues: there are very few people with whom I share my self, rather than my persona. I have created a cocoon around my self, but eventually that covering either breaks open to reveal a metamorphosis or it disintegrates and returns to nature: ashes to ashes, dust to dust. It feels as if my cocoon is weathering away, and I’m not sure that I’m ready to live without, rather than within.
People have expectations based on their expectations, not on who we really are, and once others have created us in their image, that’s all they want to see and/or know. As long as I present the appropriate persona to the appropriate person at the appropriate time, we go along to get along; however, when I stop being who they have defined me to be, it’s time for us to go our separate ways, and that has happened several times during the past year. After trying to be who others needed me to be, I saturated myself with a falseness that I could no longer sustain. One day, it was all gone. I could no longer bite my tongue so I didn’t say what I was thinking, but when I spoke up, the other persons were incredulous that I didn’t agree with them and am willing to walk the rest of the way without them as part of my life.
It surprises me that everyone else in the world is personally empowered to speak his/her own mind, especially as it pertains to who I am and how I should live my life, but I’m not allowed to do the same – even when it’s about my own life! You cannot take from a person for years and then refuse to accept that they, too, have needs – needs that you refuse to accommodate. As long as I follow someone else’s script, my life goes along more evenly. As my horoscope puts it, however, I am “never in such a good mood as to be profoundly happy,” and I have finally come to the stage in my life when I want to be “profoundly happy.”
I just have absolutely no idea whatsoever how to make that happen, which is a sad commentary about my inner resources.
I can do a Letterman, I can admit that I have done horrible things in my life that if I could undo them, I would, but I’m too pragmatic to fool myself, much less anyone else. I did learn from the mistakes and have tried valiantly not to repeat them, but it’s the mistakes that wake me up in the middle of the night. I do live my life in a world of “if only” because that’s part of who I am, too. What’s that perspective that has found popularity with the younger "me" generations: it’s all about me, so whatever I did/do is okay and the rest of the world just has to deal with it because I’ve moved on? See, that’s not who I was/am/want to be, but it may become who I am as my protective covering continues shedding itself.
I do take it personally when I give my best and it’s thrown back at me in meanness, in disrespect, in anger: how can I not take it personally when it’s aimed at me? I know that many people displace their own life frustrations onto others so they can walk away from them, but I seem to be a target more often than others, probably because I present a self to the world that says, “I can take it.” That’s not always true, however, and all the attacks, both personal and professional, have taken a toll that is just now beginning to overwhelm me. The military talks about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for those who live through the trauma of war, but I’ve lived through another war: my life, which has included 35 years of accepting responsibility for thousands of students, their parents, and colleagues who sloughed off their issues, situations, dysfunctions, and inability to cope with life onto my shoulders.
Yes, I’m serious. In an office setting, I’d never have to assume personal responsibility for the function of the workplace, as well as the individual dysfunctions of the customers who occupy the seats for an hour each day, five days a week. Do the quick math: 35 years of at least 200 students a day, and then add a parental unit to each of those students, as well as colleagues who picked the wrong job and hate what they are doing, as well as administrators who could not teach, so moved to the front office to tell those of us who can do our jobs well how to do it their way, never realizing that THEY FAILED: we haven’t.
That’s PTSD.
Yes, my strategy allows me to remain in a good mood, but it’s not a place where I feel good either about myself or about others. It used to be that I could not wait to go to work, to share my knowledge, my expertise, my experience in the classroom because my goal was to help students become better users of their English skills. A poorly-written essay reflects badly on my teaching, so I take the time to work one-on-one to help the student do a better job, which used to be enough. Not any longer: the response to a bad grade is that I personally want to hurt the student’s chances at a future that includes a good career with a great salary. It’s not professional for the student: it’s personal; but for me, it can only be professional because I’m not allowed to have it be personal.
That’s PTSD.
Life is on-going PTSD, one way or another, and we all have to learn how to cope with what is, rather than what we wish life could be, but we also have to learn how to move past where we are to closer to where we want to be. I cannot assume that “someone” is going to make my life better, so I have to do it myself. However, before I can engage that process, I have to put in place a goal, a vision of where/when/why. If I just start doing whatever I want, chances are I’ll make more bad decisions than good ones, which means spending time undoing that which doesn’t work so I can continue with what does work, a meaningless activity of nailing one foot to the floor and going around and around in circles, all the while thinking that I’m making progress toward whatever.
I want to be me, whoever that is: the good, the bad, the ugly. I don’t want to live the rest of my life in a continual process of self-censoring, while being barraged by other people’s dysfunction. I don’t want to deal with the people who ascribe meaning to words based on their interpretation of them, rather than on what was said in the course of a simple conversation. I don’t want to deal with people whose lives are imploding and expect me to accommodate the process. I don’t want to answer either my phone or my doorbell unless I’m in the frame of mind to deal with whoever’s there.
Sometimes, I just don’t want to deal with any of it – and that should be okay with the rest of the world. It should be my decision whether to go through the remainder of my life surfing across the problems or dealing with them head-on, as well as deciding whether I want others to think I’m in a good mood when I really want to be profoundly happy.
Yesterday, while watching an episode of one of the Law/Order shows during my sick day, a scene featured an actor accused of murder. His assessment: you can arrest me, but you'll never get a conviction because I'm the star of the show and without me, there is no show. I think that just maybe once or twice I'd like to be the "star" of my show and KNOW that no one can replace me, but deep down inside, anyone could be me. If I want that to be different, then I have to change to make it different. Let's see if I'm up to the task!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
K8 and What's His Name
I have never watched the Plus 8 show because it’s just not interesting to me; however, tonight Jon and his new lawyer appeared on Larry King Live and it was interesting. Jon is an opportunist who has literally screwed his way through the last year of his life and when K8, fed up with his public immorality and hugely embarrassing conduct, dropped him from the show, SHAZAM! Jon is now apologizing for his past mistakes and, following the script, saying he’s made mistakes but now it’s time for him to man up and assert himself. He wants his kids off the show so he and K8 have time to talk things through and do what’s best for the children.
Really? That isn’t the message of the past year, Jon. Your actions have spoken much louder than your apology, and, by the way, crying that you didn't know what you were signing when you signed the contract for the show just doesn't cut it. You've been living much better than you ever dreamed, and none of the pretty young thangs you've been doing for the past year would have given you a second look without the money you've earned from the TV exposure.
The new buzz word is transparency, and Jon’s as transparent as glass. It’s NOT about the children: it’s about K8 pulling the plug on financing Jon’s disgusting lifestyle. Every question had the same scripted answers, and it got tedious. Poor, poor Jon has made mistakes in the past, but he's had an epiphany and realizes he's made mistakes and now he knows what he has to do. With the threat of losing his piece of the financial pie, Jon hired a lawyer who kept telling the viewers that we’re in the court of public opinion, and with the people standing behind Jon, we’ll win. Of course, what we’re going to win is never specified, so there is no way to know if the win is Jon back on the show so he continues to earn money he can spend on going out and getting drunk, or Jon gets his own show, or TLC has to start paying Jon more or he takes them to court.
Jon may say he wants the filming to stop, but if it stops, so does the lifestyle, and I'm thinking that's not what Jon really means to have happen. If that was what he really wanted, he'd be talking to K8 in person, not on Larry King Live! Again, the actions aren't in sync with the message, Jon, and I'm not buying the product you think you're selling.
K8’s lawyer was on via telephone and he kept shaking his head, an obvious reaction to the horse pucky being shoveled by Jon and his new lawyer. Jon wants to slow down the divorce? No, he’s already moved on. Haley, the newest girlfriend, is a rock and she’s standing behind him no matter what he does. Uh, maybe, but I wouldn't bet my future on it, Jon. Jon (or his lawyer) wants to slow down the cut-off date for the money machine by slowing down the divorce that he pushed for 6 months ago! Again, his motives are so transparent that he came across as in it to win it and willing to throw his not-quite-ex-wife and children under the bus in the process.
All in all, I better understand what I've heard from others: the show was REALLY Kate Plus 9 as being married to Jon was more like having another child to raise than sharing parenting with a spouse. You said it's time for you to grow up and be a man? K8 has already moved on, Jon, so do your growing up on your own dime.
Really? That isn’t the message of the past year, Jon. Your actions have spoken much louder than your apology, and, by the way, crying that you didn't know what you were signing when you signed the contract for the show just doesn't cut it. You've been living much better than you ever dreamed, and none of the pretty young thangs you've been doing for the past year would have given you a second look without the money you've earned from the TV exposure.
The new buzz word is transparency, and Jon’s as transparent as glass. It’s NOT about the children: it’s about K8 pulling the plug on financing Jon’s disgusting lifestyle. Every question had the same scripted answers, and it got tedious. Poor, poor Jon has made mistakes in the past, but he's had an epiphany and realizes he's made mistakes and now he knows what he has to do. With the threat of losing his piece of the financial pie, Jon hired a lawyer who kept telling the viewers that we’re in the court of public opinion, and with the people standing behind Jon, we’ll win. Of course, what we’re going to win is never specified, so there is no way to know if the win is Jon back on the show so he continues to earn money he can spend on going out and getting drunk, or Jon gets his own show, or TLC has to start paying Jon more or he takes them to court.
Jon may say he wants the filming to stop, but if it stops, so does the lifestyle, and I'm thinking that's not what Jon really means to have happen. If that was what he really wanted, he'd be talking to K8 in person, not on Larry King Live! Again, the actions aren't in sync with the message, Jon, and I'm not buying the product you think you're selling.
K8’s lawyer was on via telephone and he kept shaking his head, an obvious reaction to the horse pucky being shoveled by Jon and his new lawyer. Jon wants to slow down the divorce? No, he’s already moved on. Haley, the newest girlfriend, is a rock and she’s standing behind him no matter what he does. Uh, maybe, but I wouldn't bet my future on it, Jon. Jon (or his lawyer) wants to slow down the cut-off date for the money machine by slowing down the divorce that he pushed for 6 months ago! Again, his motives are so transparent that he came across as in it to win it and willing to throw his not-quite-ex-wife and children under the bus in the process.
All in all, I better understand what I've heard from others: the show was REALLY Kate Plus 9 as being married to Jon was more like having another child to raise than sharing parenting with a spouse. You said it's time for you to grow up and be a man? K8 has already moved on, Jon, so do your growing up on your own dime.
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