Usually kissing someone’s butt or having them kiss yours is a bad thing. You flatter and fawn over someone in a position of authority as a means of currying their favor. You butter them up and subvert your own ego to get ahead. Well, what is looked down upon in a business setting, seems romantic in the couple setting. What’s wrong with your mate supplicating themselves to you, as long as the feeling is mutual? It’s good to see Travis “kiss butt” and vice versa.

Here, Travis and Kourtney continue their performance in Venice, Italy. They’ve kept pap flashbulbs exploding with one display of love and lust after the other. I know people rooted for Scott and Kourtney, but one has to admit they were in a rut. They were not only like an old, married couple, but they were a dysfunctional one. They loved each other, but were physically and emotionally distant. Until this affair with Travis started, there had always been something dispassionate about Kourtney, even when she liked to tease us with hints of lesbian affairs and other hijinks on KUWTK. You felt she was doing it all as a joke, but really wasn’t that into romance. That has all changed now. She is still bursting with humor and a deadpan air, but you feel that the thrill is real, even if she and Travis do poosh it up a notch, to get publicity. Yes, I think they want the attention and who can blame them. They still have careers to foster. I see their priorities as family, sex and fame. In that order.

The phonier Khloe became, the more Kourtney emerged as my favorite sister, but even I never dreamed I’d be eager to see photos of her every day. How many followers has she gained since hooking up with Travis? Suddenly, she’s exciting.

And as for the pregnancy rumors, though Kourtney has seemingly had more exercise than ever lately, you can tell there’s a new paunch and I don’t think it’s just pasta either.