DramatistDreamer

The Agassi-Graf family.

Roberto Bautista-Agut's father just passed away. Man, the sadness!

What next?

And both teams have been eliminated! How is this better than the previous format? How?

I wonder what the atmosphere is in here. The crowd looks sparse but at 2:25 am on a Thursday morning, Spanish time. Most people are either at the club or in bed.

Seems like that defeats the purpose of narrowing the income inequality gap. I'm not sure what he's thinking, I guess he figures if he taxes the rich to the hilt, somehow it will all work out? Sanders hasn't been very forthcoming in providing details so I can't really say what his plan truly is. I've stopped taking him seriously quite a number of years ago.

What a mess.

For some students, even tuition at a community college is a struggle. I don't like to oversimplify issues. Whether you like it or not, the American taxpayers already paid for the bank bailouts and the farmers bailouts as well as the bailout of the auto industry. The weight load of the student loan debt is in the trillions. All that debt is not going to be paid off in full, that's reality. As someone who attended and graduated from two schools that are considered "prestigious" and paid a high friggin' price for it (even with large scholarships), I can say that something has to be done about the cost of tuition. It is embarrassingly high. Everyone should be embarrassed by how high tuition is here. Even the U.K. with its attempts to charge tuition (they never charged in the past) at their universities don't come anywhere close to the tuition rates in the U.S. I've discussed this with friends and colleagues who went to uni in the U.K. and they think, like our healthcare system, that the U.S. has an immoral standard in terms of cost. Is this Mike Pompeo news brand new?? I feel like it's been said before that he was resigning but I think his Senate run prospects are tanked after Sondland's testimony today.

I'm all about looking at candidate's policies and Buttigeig, honestly, has some bad ones. Are millionaires and billionaires really clamoring for free education for their children?? And guess what? Non-degree programs still charge tuition. Many of the people who go to trade schools still have to pay tuition. It's not a question of "pathways", it's a question of being able to afford these programs and having your certification not be for a diploma mill but accepted as genuine proof of your training and professionalism.

Good Lord, did these folks never give the website more than a second thought? Hire a professional, for goodness sake, Google Translate ain't it!

By the way, has this been mentioned in this thread?

The Davis Cup website is even more of a shambles than I thought! Don't forget USES from right here in the good 'ole U S of A! Oh. Ehm. Gee. USES is supposed to be USA? Looks like someone couldn't decided between E.E.U.U and U.S.A., do they decided to split the difference. Pique didn't spend money on the website. Clearly!

Oh, don't get me started on how they've handled anything regarding Kamala Harris! And their Twitter page is an absolute mess, they've been challenged and ratioed and all they do is take down tweets, with nary an apology for getting things so wrong.

Stephanie Grisham and Politico? I'll pass, lol. I already read my one Politico article per month.

I had no idea Halperin was managing a... (*squints at image*) newsletter. How 1990s.

Well, if it's of any comfort, there were no shortage of empty seats yesterday too. Honestly, I think the only matches that will be full/sold-out are the Spanish matches. The issue of empty seats is a problem that often happens with regular tournaments that run during the weekdays, which is why Davis Cup's weekend atmosphere was usually something I enjoyed. It seems like the Pique Cup is conscious of the empty seats issue and is trying their best to get the camera to "squeeze in" (or is it out) on the sections where there are clusters of spectators, hoping that viewers won't 'zero in' on the empty seats, I guess.

It's too early to be talking about the ATP Cup @Faulkner. One messy tournament at a time, lol. Yesterday, Day 1, the Rakuten Sports website (which I didn't know existed until the day before the tournament started) had a free livestream for the matches but the quality was pretty bad. Lots of freezing and the need to constantly reload the page.

Who TF is gonna watch Davis Cup during the God*amn weekday??! I tried to stream a match on the "official" website and the livestream was f*cked! I gave up and I no longer care about Davis Cup. Sorry but Pique trying to make DC like FIFA World Cup is not a good idea. As it is I won't be able to care about DC until the weekend, Thursday afternoon at the very earliest.

For years, this man tried to defend the indefensible, suddenly now that he's running for president, he's apologizing? He must think some of us are stupid.

On the one hand, twitter can be an informative, entertaining platform in the exchange of ideas. OTOH, twitter can be a garbage platform where the loudest mouth prattle on and on, thinking a lack of response to their tweets signals some sort of assent. There was a tweet that made me chuckle from a woman (I tried to find it but I didn't save it and I don't follow her, so it sort of got lost) who was mocking progressive twitter for railing against Obama--she basically said something like "look Obama knows how to win elections and none y'all will ever know, so stfu". Of course I noticed the pushback from certain progressive activists who, although they wouldn't respond directly to that woman's tweet, railed on about Obama on their twitter thread (I don't follow any of these people but Twitter has an annoying habit of floating out tweets from people that you don't even follow) and this one person taunted that supposedly no one is defending Obama like "y'all used to". People are not responding to this person, not because they agree with what this person is tweeting but because I think people just no longer feel like engaging in these meaningless, energy-sucking arguments. But the provocations are not just coming from keyboard activists, it is also coming from the media. Has anyone watched the forum that was hosted by Jorge Ramos on Univision? Case in point, Ramos, who has been prone to nicknaming Obama the "Deporter-in-Chief" couldn't wait to ask Sen. Kamala Harris about the Obama administration record on deportation and whether she though it was a mistake/wrong. Harris very deftly told Ramos that the ICE policy of detaining undocumented for non-criminal and minor violations was not mandatory, for instance she advised the California state government that they should not/did not need to detain people who did not commit serious crimes. Ramos, for his part, acknowledged that Pres. Obama instituted DACA, ACA and other remarkable laws, initiatives, etc. and Harris bluntly stated her thoughts on Pres. Obama being one of the greatest presidents in our lifetime. I think she was so insistent because she's wary of how her remarks came out during a previous debate and used the time that was allotted to her in this forum very well.

Ironically, Dennison is in that movie Bombshell, which is all about the sexual harassment scandal at Fox Newschannel.

Whether or not it was a guess, Chit can answer for herself, I think. You won't get any arguments from me on the value of the YEC though. On both the WTA and the ATP, the entire tournament means very little, other than points and money. Still, I think the winners will be pretty happy with both the money and the points. Especially on the women's side, where the WTA's prizemoney totals eclipsed the men's, lol.

And by Jove, you thought correctly! With the Brexit shambles on the horizon, it is only right that the tournament move out of Brexit-land. The majority of the finalists over the past decade hail from countries that will still be within the Eurozone come 2020/21.