DramatistDreamer

For anyone who hasn't seen Cobra Kai and is interested, Season 1 is up on YouTube for free, with ads, of course.

Hopefully Coco vs. Naomi will live up to the hype.

When Trump thought the hurricane would hit Puerto Rico, he was only too happy to leave to go to Poland. Suddenly when he finds out the hurricane changed course and Mar-a-Lago is actually in the hurricane's path, he abruptly decides to stay in the U.S. to 'monitor the situation' and sub in Pence to go to Poland.

That was a fabulous win for Taylor. She went to the net 100+ times and had Simona shook!

Somebody was thinking of this too? Theatre folk be on the same wavelength, I guess. This is pretty brilliant satire.

Look at what this country has become.

Also, there is a #TulsiDidntQualifyParty trending on Twitter because I'm guessing that Tulsi Gabbard doesn't meet the requirements to qualify for the next debate.

Svitolina and her backboard tennis make me sick, lol!

Parliament is being suspended and Great Britain is officially a disaster area.

I didn't mean to suggest that was a bad thing. It's just the way it's done these days. Why else would someone guest host SNL? Oh okay, he's hosting in December so it won't be for the Rudy Ray Moore biopic, perhaps the Richard Pryor biopic? I'm not sure they're finished filming that though. I look forward to it too, nonetheless. If you saw him on Comedians in Cars (Getting Coffee), it was obvious that he wanted to dip his toe into live performance. He might even try some standup down the road, I think this may be a way to test the waters.

That (Dolemite) Rudy Ray Moore movie is coming up, gotta promote that, is my guess.

These polls are canceling each other out. What do they even mean at this point?

I agree. By the way, Bret Stephens left twitter...again, over being called a bed bug.

So this photo seems to be trending on social media right now and it reminds me of the photo of Ivanka sitting next to Trudeau at that meeting that she shouldn't have even been privy to at the time. I'm thinking the Canadian PM should be known as the LL Cool J (Ladies Love Justin) of the North. At least where the Trump women are concerned. Honestly, it wouldn't take much to do a reboot of the soap Capitol. Just create composite characters based on Melanie, uh, I mean Melania and Ivanka as your "cheat code".

It seemed as though even Bob Hughes, when you look at this dating history between the times he was married to Lisa and eventually, to Kim, the show also seemed to put him in relationships with women who looked demonstrably younger than him. I'm not sure if Anne Sward was in the role of Lyla Montgomery when Bob and Lyla were engaged but I remember looking at a scene between the two that supposedly took place not long after their engagement had broken up and couldn't help but think how much younger Lyla (Sward) looked than Bob. Back then, I think the show had a "yen" for putting younger women with their most senior male characters. Ironically, two out of three of those male characters found their best pairings with women who would be considered age appropriate to those characters.

I'm not sure how many people are aware of this 1619 Project (which has conservatives whining and complaining) but this serves as a fairly decent complement to the series. Fortunately, I knew all of this history that's been presented in this piece but only because I either learned either by reading about these events (which family members obliged as education was of paramount importance in my family though we were essentially immigrants) or because I took courses in African American history and culture in college. I remain astonished that this is not a part of a basic primary or even high school education in America. The absence of this history in the curriculum speaks volumes of why the country is in the state it is in.

^^ I'm pretty sure that video has been posted to this thread awhile back.

How many people under 50 actually still watch cable news?

Not sure who likes an unstable stock market but if there is, somebody will surely tell me, lol.

I mean, there's a difference between recognizing human life gone and giving deference where it is not due and has not been earned. The Kochs have made it their lives' work to institute policies that made many lives demonstrably worse. When I made that post upthread, that was pretty much the most I could muster.

David Koch is dead, everyone. Dassit.

I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised that these things take place in an industry where the genre's writers and producers feel that it's perfectly appropriate to write a character as a rapist, then write that rapist as a romantic hero less than two years later. And audiences were groomed to accept this!

Is anyone surprised that there was a "Me Too/Times Up" situation at ATWT, especially in that final decade? Look at who was in charge. Look at how characters were being written. I'm not even surprised at this. I was expecting it at some point. Ironically, while many others were trying to write a hagiography of Eplin and his "exceptional" effect on the show's history (which is, kind of ridiculous when you think about the length and breadth of this show's history), I wasn't feeling it.

Nah, that's not what I asked though. The trolls who used to prowl around these messageboards (who are no doubt, still lurking) are the ones I posed that question to. I'm smart enough to realize that big business usually fares well while middle, lower and the poor go through hell. No need to state the obvious.