DramatistDreamer

As someone whose family migrated to another country whose siblings are made up of us who were born in the U.S. and elsewhere but have been raised here, I can tell you that identity and national affinity is a lot more complex than people might realize. Often it cannot be reduced to an "either (this) or (that)" proposition.

The Miami Herald has been quietly doing some very thorough investigative and journalistic pieces with little recognition. They are reporting news that I don't see anyone else reporting, or before anyone else does, such as the existence of mainly U.S. based mercenaries in Haiti, who were spirited away back to the U.S. before they could face charges locally. Just thought I'd mention that. Many smaller newspapers have been picking up the slack left behind by the major media outlets.

To those who may not know, Garbiñe was born in Venezuela.

I knew that FAA was the real deal since his junior days and he has quietly improved from then, to the Challenger circuit and now on the main Tour, he's just growing in composure (and height!). He was born on Roger Federer's birthday (who seems to have taken a liking to him) and like Federer, FAA seems to have a fairly robust game and physical build. I hope Felix can stay healthy as he climbs the rankings because he has the game and mentality to have a bright career on the Tour. Munar can be a pesky, persistent opponent, especially on clay and FAA did not let Munar get his way in the match. At all. The last time I saw the two play, I believe it was the opposite result, which just shows how far FAA has come. And he looks like he's having so much fun!

Trump attracts the dregs of society and politics like flies to sh*t.

Kenneth Starr was Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer in those sex abuse cases? What an unsettling irony.

Because VA is not content to just rest on their laurels made of the blackface scandal.

As an addendum to that post I made earlier. Boy, Trump sure can pick some criminally inclined people for his cabinet.

From this twee, I take it that nobody is quite certain whether this was a response to Harrison's gaslighting tweet.

From what I can remember it was just on the edge of "Damn you fine!" She was wearing an outfit that kind of revealing. I tried to look on her Instagram but it looks like some of the pictures and comments have been removed. Since the accident some people have posted very derogatory, nasty comments so I can't blame her, really.

Prakash really likes his reflection, doesn't he? I remember a couple years ago, he commented on one of Venus' photos on Insta with something like "Looking good, Vee!"

There really should be no statute of limitations for the type of crimes Epstein has committed but given the connections he has, it wouldn't surprise me if he were not made to pay for the breadth of his crimes.

Bencic takes out Halep.

Senator Richard Blumenthal said that the authorities did not even warn him that he was on the list. He found out about it while watching the news!

People will not pay as much attention to American mercenaries riding around with impunity in Haiti, carrying a truck full of automatic weapons as they have to Jussie Smollet.

Trump is really selling out the U.S. to the highest bidder.

The visual imagery of his is kind of cool.

I'd expect nothing less from Hsieh these days. Unless you can outpower her, she's making on court life miserable for the "finesse only" (and Muguruza) crowd on the WTA. And she's so unbothered, lol.

I'm glad I stopped subscribing to cable like 8-9 years ago. CNN is making basic cable look even more basic.

What is wrong with just about everybody today? Frances looked like he was fighting for focus on those points. All Evans had to do was to keep the ball in play and wait for Frances to make errors, which he did...in abundance!

Reading that article, details that I'm seeing for the second time, I'm reminded of the fact that the arts scene in the U.S. has often been built on the cult of personality of usually one figure. Even at some of the most esteemed institution there is often a centering around one man (it's overwhelmingly men who run the most esteemed arts institutions). NYCB is probably one of the most extreme cases, but only because most institutions and companies have at least one heir apparent waiting in the wings to take over when the person in charge steps down. This article also makes me think of how famed choreographer Bob Fosse was said to harass many of his dancers, some of whom seemed to excuse it as him being needy. I wonder, though, if you were to talk to those former dancers, in the context of today's #MeToo movement, would they feel the same? Needless to say, that upcoming biopic about Fosse and Gwen Verdon (who he cheated with and cheated on) should be interesting.