Word: jon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...women’s teams qualified for all three of their national affairs, with the contests taking place in the windy waters of San Francisco, Calif. “It is our goal to qualify for all three of the national championships every year,” senior skipper Jon Garrity said. The women’s squad finished its season with a 10th-place effort at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Women’s National Championship from May 25-27. The co-ed squad competed in the ICSA Team Race National Championship from...
Borowitz, Andy •insufficient media attention to Jon & Kate Plus Eight is bemoaned...
...audiences, like the families, are teeming: Jon & Kate scored 4.6 million viewers for its season finale. Why? These shows offer drama, cute kids and sweet, sweet judgment. They take parenting, the oldest human activity--O.K., the second oldest--and turn it into something exotic, thrilling, even countercultural...
...economy, the shows have a hot-button appeal. Today TLC's shows make literal a cold truth: that deciding how many kids to have is about not just love but also money. (One side effect of the recession: vasectomies have skyrocketed.) No-nonsense Kate Gosselin of Jon & Kate--who had twins, then sextuplets, through fertility treatments--puts it plainly: "The cost of everything times eight is ridiculous." The Gosselins have defrayed those costs through corporate freebies--bikes, toys, personal services--and, of course, the show, which, Kate told Ladies' Home Journal, is "our family job." When hubby Jon...
...ends will somehow meet. On the other hand: Just how do they plan to make ends meet? Aren't these just more overconsuming Americans in over their heads? What about the carbon footprint of all those diapers? (Hence TLC hooked up the Gosselins with solar panels in the special Jon & Kate Plus 8 Go Green...