DramatistDreamer

Ghana is quite a long trip to make, especially for Pelosi.

This is interesting.

Someone needs to translate this because, I'm intrigued.

Must admit, I had to Google Coughlin. I already knew who Ashley Wagner is.

The British pound has lost 3% of its value since Boris Johnson took over as PM. Whoa!

Although I agree with a number of your assessments, I don't know, I think it's too early to be so dispirited while there are too many people on stage. I have this thing against early pronouncements based on very early debates. One of Obama's earliest debate performances had people pronouncing him basically out of the race and none of the major network debate moderators took Trump seriously as a candidate and therefore, very few asked him any seriously probing questions. Elizabeth Warren has given the most consistently strongest debate performances overall so far, but again, while there are a dozens of other candidates, many candidates are not even being asked probing questions about their background and history. Although I suspect no one really takes Williamson seriously (at least, I hope not since her ideas on vaccinations and HIV are downright dangerous), Gabbard has the potential to be another Jill Stein, and her second debate on the stage, they keep asking her the same questions, no different from her first time on the debate stage. While Gabbard is up there, why not ask her some serious questions about her record, her known associations and statements that she has made. Until the herd is thinned, I can't truly gain much insight from these debates, other than that Warren has a "plan for that".

CNN is so bad at these debates!

So why do I get the feeling that it may be too late to stave off a downturn in the economy? Also I hear that the Dow has plunged (I haven't bothered to check though).

Yet no media sees fit to discuss this trend with any depth.

I tried to watch some of it but found myself nodding off and switched off. It seemed as though the moderators were more interested in keeping time and blocking the candidates from taking more than their allotted time than asking pertinent questions and allowing for responses and actual engagement. Maybe due to the sheer number of candidates on the platform, true engagement with the issues is impossible. I did read that some of the responses that Williamson offered. People were shook! If we're all relying on Williamson to introduce some "meat" to these debates, other than the usual talking points, then we are in quite a state at this point.

The shows also should have been forward planning so that the next generation of younger writers had the ability to step up. Famous painters and master builders had art school trained apprentices that actually finished many of their masterworks so that they could move onto other projects (a practice that is still in effect today). Why didn't the EPs/HWs do likewise? Have them work under observation to see if they can duplicate each soap's "style" (and each soap did indeed have a signature style of writing) and cull the cream of the top to be in their writing rooms. (And before anybody mentions ABC, this is not what ABC's Daytime Program did). And they did not rush to the alter and have paternity switch stories like the "young" adults on soaps seemingly do every other day now.

Yes, there are definitely night matches at the Miami Open (which, being Miami, also has the capacity to get very hot and humid) as well as the U.S. Open in NYC (in the NYC metro area, we are currently on heatwave #4 this year) where there have been some classic and some infamous night matches. Not to mention the Australian Open (played during their summer season in Jan/Feb.) where the weather can get pretty brutal, has played night matches for the last 15+ years now).

I guess this is the next level from the previous college scandal saga. Already advantaged parents just keep upping the level of cheating. Will a Lifetime movie get made out of this too?

Perhaps but when bigwigs start losing money, that is when, once again, it will likely be taken out of the people's hands-- cue the "Super-delegates" being put to work and the backroom wheeling and dealing will begin. Sounding cynical but they will choose the "winner" and if Trump loses them enough money, he will be tossed out, IMO.

One thing that could really upend the political trajectory is if a recession comes in the next year, as many economists have been predicting. I don't think enough political pundits are acknowledging this and our political discussions lack this thinking.

More like ADW alumni meet up.

People should really not forget that in 2016 Trump had help from voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering and Russia. Speaking of which-

The mainstream media, for the most point, has truly been derelict in their duty by neglecting to highlight what a slow-moving disaster this administration has been. Another one bites the dust.

Vandenbosch? From what I can remember reading many years ago, she died of some type of rare illness at a relatively young age. Left behind two kids and a husband, I believe.

Bill Smitrovich in that Scope commercial. I was about to say, I feel as if I'd seen this episode years ago until we got to 25:45! LMAO. I really am an 80s kid because as soon as the opening notes began, I had a joke in my head that this looked like the opening scene of a mashup of an MTV video, meets Kids Incorporated (was Frannie Fergie's stand-in?) meets Lionel Richie's "Running With the Night"-- turns out it was Lionel Richie's "Running With The Night"! What a rip-off! Every time I see Terri Vandenbosch, I can't help but feel badly about her personal story IRL. It's sad. I bet Julianne Moore was relieved to have missed that mess!

Baltimore backlash.

While he's decrying the conditions in Baltimore, he should remember that his son-in-law is a slumlord. Also, he should also remember that Mar-a-Lago has been cited for double-digits worth of health violations.

Speaking of having Freddie Brookes and Maggie Lawson interacting, unbeknownst to me, this photo was taken last month.