Postmortem Gosselins - post modern Brady Bunch
Dancing With the Stars has reminded America of just how big a bitch Kate Gosselin is. When her dancing partner threw up his hands and walked out on her it underscored everything we already knew and had put to the back of our minds. Kate picked out a spineless nice guy to use as a sperm donor/eye dropper. Some one who could be easily bullied into towing the line later on, no matter how carried away Kate might get and how zany her schemes might become. Some might have called it a smart plan that covers the angles. It didn't cover one important angle though, and that is absolutely nobody can put up with Kate's shit!
Competition: If you smoke you're brains out I'll smoke my head off. Anything you can do I can do better!
The show did something else. It's gotten Jon Gosselin to take an active interest in his numerous offsprings' lives. Jon seemed to get side tracked while escaping from Stalag +8. The poor boy got lost in a succession of sleazy broads and seedy schemes like a drunk who's won the lottery. His first taste of freedom ever must've gone right to his and, and then on through.
Conjectures of a guilty spectator
When the trainwreck had gone far enough the same crowd who egged them on like spectators howling "jump" at a suicide scene suddenly decided that Kate and Jon were horrible people and were too disgusting to watch. Lawyers scooped up the money as Jon and Kate squabbled with each other. Soon Jon was out of the series and Kate was out of money. That's when TLC decided to put the show on hiatus - perhaps to be replaced by another real life tattoo parlor series (How could Kat Von D not have hooked up with Jesse James? She's gotta be his dream girl!).
Courting Kate in this best of all possible worlds
Kate landed her DWTS gig. Jon narrowly missed landing in jail. However Jon now feels that Kate is spending too much time bullying her dancing partner and not enough time tyrannizing over her family. It's something like "Why would you want to be an absentee mother when you could go on being an unfit mother at home?" So Jon is taking Kate to court to sue for primary custody. That would be a good deal not only for the kids but all the way around. Jon could stop paying Kate child support and start collecting it from her. That's called "win-win" in the Jon Gosselin playbook ( ... and you didn't think that there was such a thing as a Jon Gosselin playbook!). It also means that any future deal making has to be done through the custodial parent in this best of all possible worlds. It's spring, and everything is coming up Gosselin.
