Something wonderful has happened.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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Something so delightful, so entertaining, so fascinating that I don’t know if I’ll ever be the same.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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Have you already guessed?\u00a0 It’s the Real Housewives of New Jersey!\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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You knew I was going to say that, didn’t you?\u00a0 Life is so funny.\u00a0 Once in a while, when you’re really feeling hopeless and blue, the universe will deliver onto you a sliver of immeasurable joy.\u00a0 Like the Real Housewives of New Jersey.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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I know what you’re thinking: That show is awful; it reinforces stereotypes about women and the Italian American community.\u00a0 It makes people have unrealistic hopes and dreams about their own futures.\u00a0 All of that is true, but still.\u00a0 Don’t you find comfort in watching caricatures of Italian American women talk about their hobbies (getting mani\/pedis), their mottos (Happy wife, happy life) and their sometimes-dangerous insistence on always telling it like it is?\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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It doesn’t appear as if these people have ever watched a news channel or read a book, and that’s just fine by me.\u00a0 I think it’s possible that human evolution is progressing more along the lines of a bell curve.\u00a0 We got so far using our brains to invent the modern world and cure diseases that we are now taking on more attributes of primates.\u00a0 People on reality TV can’t worry about feeding the hungry- they’ve got grooming rituals to preform!\u00a0 Breast implants and jewelry are not going to buy themselves for god’s sake.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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Besides, someone has to stimulate the economy.\u00a0 We should commend our brothers and sisters who have the courage to buy $12,000 couches.\u00a0 It’s not easy to spend money like that when so many people in this country are out of work and losing their homes.\u00a0 Well, it makes it a little easier if you don’t give a shit about others.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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I say bravo, Bravo!\u00a0 Thank you for reminding us that people like the Real Housewives of New Jersey are alive and well and getting their nails done.\u00a0 Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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