The Cut - The Return of the Ex Housewives

Don’t tell Dorinda Medley she was fired. “I’m like a bird,” she says. “If you put a little worm in front of my mouth, I’ll go for it every time. I can’t help myself!” The little worm, in this metaphor, is the person saying the F-word. There’s a moment in the latest installment of Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip — in which a selection of “legacy” cast members from Bravo’s Real Housewives go on holiday together — that spells, er, screams this out. In episode one, Medley argues with co-star Kristen Taekman about whether she was fired — or, crucially, put on “pause” — from The Real Housewives of New York when she left the show in 2020. Medley, who tends to take the bait whenever anyone suggests the door wasn’t left open to her, points across the dinner table and tells Taekman: “Eagles don’t fly with pigeons. So go get your bread crumbs and talk to me tomorrow.”

Pants = Love. Love your sisters. Love yourself. Southwest Airlines is paying a record $140M fine for its travel meltdown last holiday season. Here’s a neat archival read about the history of children’s literature from an 1888 issue of The Atlantic. Minimum wage is set to increase in 22 states on January 1. The pope says Roman Catholic priests can bless same-sex couples (but not their marriages). Why does this sort of thing never happen to us? Peter Singer hasn’t lost all hope for animal welfare, but he has lost some. And of course Snoopy transcends generational divides.

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