DramatistDreamer

I don't know the person who posted this but looking at this picture made me wonder if AH's Victoria was supposed to be some AB/Mac clone? Especially considering the fact that AshBash and David Tom were highly popular as a couple, I wouldn't put it past Y&R to find a clone and then try to build them up to be this big romance. It's just something about the way Bashioum is posed her that makes me think so. Yes, I know David Tom had been replaced by Biller Miller by then but still, the original suspicion remains.

New York City has rejected Trumpism, which is particularly delicious. Didn't Trump crow about how Love's loss was a done deal and how Love game him no love? If she keeps her seat, someone should ask him about that one.

Could there be another indictment for someone in Trump's circle incoming?

^^ Don't know what to say, other than how completely vile!

ESPN3 is replaying the second set but why bother, since I already know the score, lol.

Annnd, as a rejoinder to the story posted above, this.

AOC seems to be learning fast, hopefully she continues to learn. Some of the media seems intent on pitting AOC against Nancy Pelosi and vice-versa. The good news is that neither woman appears to be falling for it. I didn't expect Pelosi to fall for it but I've been pleasantly surprised that AOC isn't either.

Are they going after Boris Johnson and the others who have been instigating leaving the EU for over 20 years? Anyway, some tried to disparage it as 'Not a Blue Wave' but it certainly appears that some sort of blue wave did occur.

Just sitting down to read that NYT article about Facebook and lawd, these folks are horrid!! One of the biggest problems is that these companies have become publicly traded behemoths that are exhibiting all the signs and falling into all the pitfalls associated with corporations that are on the Wall Street treadmill. The quest to chase dollars and expansion coupled with the tech ethos to "move fast and break things" all make for an ugly combination results-wise. What the U.S. desperately needs is more competition. We're at the point in tech that telecommunications were at about 20 years ago (especially ironic since the FCC Chairman clearly doesn't want tech/ISPs etc. to be regarded and regulated the way that telecommunications currently are-- as a service), where the Ma Bells, etc. and a few other mega-companies who had the lionshare of the market and choices were exceptionally limited and the consumer had to put up with it until they were ordered to break the hell up! Then an opportunity for some new companies to come along. Some of those companies flopped, some were absorbed into larger companies but there were a few that remained independent and regional/local and to those consumers in those areas, it has made all the difference in the world. We need more of that. Amazon, Facebook and Google are all especially ruthless companies in the way they drive the financial and consumer marketplaces. Unless there are a bunch of companies that can set up shop, in regional and local markets (a la Cricket wireless...oh, but you laugh...!), we're doomed to put up with these corporate behemoths moving fast and loose (and carelessly) with our data and our wallets/pocketbooks.

The biggest irony is that May, who was ambivalent at best, about Leaving the E.U. now has the task of trying to carve out a deal has been left in her lap. The biggest Leavers have absconded, after seemingly throwing up their hands after they discovered that it would be impossible to get the deal that they've been trying to sell to the public for twenty years. This is extraordinary. The remorse is real.

I also hope that is over too. If Democrats and others have argued that Trump never had the temperament to be POTUS, what would it look like having an Avenatti as a nominee for the Democratic party?? Speaking of spectacles, Theresa May has just spoken at The House of Commons and is taking question and answers after a sizable number of her cabinet walked off the job, one by one. It's an extraordinary sight as it's playing out Live. May makes statement on draft Brexit Deal

Glad I never got too into Avenatti. When I read about some of his financial dealings (I posted the article here a few months ago in this thread), he started to look like a shady and unsavory character to me. Maybe this will weed him out of thinking of a 2020 presidential run. This should have no bearing on Stormy Daniels, even though I'm sure the GOP is trying to connect the two, somehow.

Many of today's doctors are absolutely not having it!

This Kafelnikov thread is quite a blunt rebuttal. Interesting read though.

Though tbh, Hsieh kinda snatched the ninja title from Aga over the past year. This year's WTF seems to have a common theme, mediocre quality tennis matches being played.

Thank goodness I missed that entire a*ss whooping that Kei got from Kevin.

Thank God this kid survived! One thing that so many of my relatives abroad are just beginning to understand is how perilous it is to simply be Black and living in the U.S. where your life can be in jeopardy or ended simply for being Black and living! It's insane! It's not that black women were in love with HRC, we recognized her weaknesses as a candidate but we also knew that it would get so much worse with a man like Trump in the White House. A lot of people asserted that only certain groups of people would be in jeopardy and they wouldn't be affected-- well, they were wrong. The flames of hatred are being fanned in many directions and many groups of people who believed that it wouldn't touch them are now discovering quite the opposite.

The GOP tax cuts, which will likely come as a surprise to no one, have so far, failed to live up to most of their promises. Proponents of these tax cuts claim that it will take awhile to see measurable success for real people but in the meantime, the deficit (which the GOP used to claim to care about) continues to explode, soaring to levels not seen since the U.S. was trying to pull itself out of the Great Recession. Trump’s Tax Cut Was Supposed to Change Corporate Behavior. Here’s What Happened.

There is an upcoming documentary on R. Kelly and his exploitation of young women that should be out soon.

Hopefully there are more indictments coming soon but in the meantime...

Jack Sock failing upward, per usual. Interestingly, the "Woman" being in quotes is stirring a lot of controversy. From what I've read on social media, many people are unhappy with the use of quotes on the GQ cover and thought the word Woman should've simply be written on its own.