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Wow, Karen Khachanov bullied that baseline today, lol! Of the GenerationNex group, his volleys are a cut above the rest, from what I've seen. Even if Nolé is fatigued, he's beaten people looking much worse than he did today, so Karen still had to go out there and take the match and congrats to him!

A tight race. SMH.

Many of us knew of the danger and were diminished for speaking about it. I do knew exactly why America ignored journalists of color.

Both Horgan and Rosemary Prinz could have made multiple appearances right up to the series finale. Missed opportunities, for sure. Some months ago, I was revisiting a classic ATWT from 1986 and saw a scene where Frannie Hughes and Casey Perretti were returning from a date and just as Casey was moving in to kiss Frannie a wail came from inside--it was from baby Christopher Hughes. The crying disrupted the moment. In a half-joking, half-complaining tone, Casey laments the unfortunate timing of "Vinne Boombatz". I had no idea what Casey was referring to so I began to try to find out. Initially, I had misspelled the name and got no answers and forgot all about it. Today, something jarred my memory and I decided to search again and for some reason, I found who I think Casey was referring to.

You know what? I think I clicked on just after that on court coaching incident that you just described @ChitHappens because I heard vague conversation about on court coaching, etc. but the volume was turned down so low that I guess I didn't really pick up the details, but I found it interesting that the commentator was talking about OCC even though play had already resumed in the match. Hmm. Instead, I heard some tennis journos b*tching about Wang not officially qualifying for Zhuhai, yet getting into the tournament as an alternate LL type, etc. I just kinda laughed and shrugged it off because I was kind of low-key gleeful that Muguruza got bageled.

I saw very little of the semifinal. You mean there was another incident??! I haven't heard of anything today. What happened? Muguruza seems to be a very domineering personality and when anyone tries to even the power dynamic with her, she pitches a fit. She should try to go coachless for awhile. If she keeps this up, she may have little choice.

I've been lukewarm on Garbiñe for quite some time now but I was most annoyed at how muted the criticism has been toward her tantrums. Even though I hate on court coaching (and not-so-secretly hope this incident plays against it), Muguruza handled herself terribly in that situation. She and Sumyk seem to have this weird, almost unseemly co-dependent relationship. It seems to cross over the line of a player chirping at her coach.

A lot of people were grateful to Thiem for taking out Jack. Last year when Sock won, I didn't really care one way or the other but he shouldn't be able to flop his way to the SFs when he did bupkis in singles this year. It's cool to see Khachanov emerge, and it would be equally cool to see him emerge with the trophy tomorrow.

Wow, Karen Khachanov ran through Thiem like a hot knife through butter!

None of the people who run the major Hollywood studios can be called liberal by any stretch of the imagination. Having some vocal actors and a few directors and some writers, who also happen to be liberal doesn't constitute an entire industry being that way. The people with actual power to greenlight a movie or a series are almost always conservative and it has been this way going back to the days of MGM and Louis B. Mayer. Many people look at actors and think that they run the industry. They don't. We've actually discussed this topic in the Movies and Music Thread and lately, also in the Hollywood Sexual Assault/Sexual Harassment thread in the Off-Topic Section. Despite, the ruling in Georgia, I see the voter suppression handbook is still at work in some states.

None of the episodes uploaded to YouTube actually show Anton, although he has been mentioned a number of times.

I'm glad you posted this @Khan so I didn't have to. The actual document, which is stored in 'the cloud' is available with a quick online search. With each L that Trump Inc. takes, it draws even sharper focus on his haste to try to reshape the courts.

On that same episode of House Of Cards, Robert Newman (Josh Lewis, GL) appears. Who says Robin Wright is trying to escape being associated with anything soap opera?

Beth Chamberlain (Beth Raines, GL) appears in the final season of House Of Cards on Netflix.

I've forgotten that this type of style has now permeated the pulpit. I never expected a twenty-something year old man would be taken in by the kind of philosophy that Jimmy Swaggart promoted. Why so expensive? Did the side-piece go on the trip too?

Yeah, there were a few lines that I read from a few of the people that cause me to roll my eyes. Also, the guy that said that he was conflicted because although he disagreed with Trump's stance on immigration, he believes Trump is a man of God . I couldn't help but think that this guy really needed to get out of his bubble. Trump may be a lot of things but a devout Christian is NOT one of them. I was raised in church, have relatives who have done missionary work and I don't recognize Trump's brand of Christianity.

WTA needs to just go on ahead and get rid of OCC. It might be helping a few players, but in general, it's pointless.

It's been about eight years since I've watched an entire episode of anything on cable news but all I have to say is, never underestimate the calculus that goes into having an intelligent, engaging host who doesn't pander to the soundbyte. I have to put in a mention to the highly under-rated PBS Newshour that has been doing longform broadcast journalism for decades. I've watched them since I was a tweenager (Charlayne Hunter-Gault initially reeled me in). These days I admit, I don't watch as faithfully (I don't watch as much TV period) and that Brooks and Shields segment has to be the weakest part of their broadcast (thankfully, it's usually only once a week). I wasn't going to read this NYT article but I saw the first picture and excerpt and, it's not as bad as I thought it would be and it turned out to be a somewhat interesting read, particularly the young woman who states her feeling that the evangelicals have done immense harm to marginalized communities. There are some real conflicts going on within the evangelical community and just as I have suspected, it goes along demographics like age and ethnicity/race primarily. ‘God Is Going to Have to Forgive Me’: Young Evangelicals Speak Out

OMG. I have been seeing this story on the news and I had no idea the sisters were Saudi. The thread is quite chilling.

I'm just so tired.

The thread about Wohl approaching those financial firm for seed money and a bunch of perks was pretty funny too. Case in point for Trump being some sort of odd Pied Piper for the corrupt and/or criminally-minded:

It's not that I expected the challenge to birthright citizenship to succeed but I did expect him/them to try it. What I'm marveling at is the sheer frequency of these criminal operations. It's as if Trump were the "Pied Piper" of underhanded/criminal operations to subvert the government. They all are flocking his administration. Also, I'm bracing for those tax cuts to bite the economy. Trump is only good at making money for himself by gaming the system and short-changing people. He's no good at creating equity for others.

Mostly, I expected things like the challenge to birthright citizenship and harassment of ethnic minorities, racist incidents, etc., programs cut that help marginalized and low-income communities to happen but these bizarre events, like the one unfolding today is something that I still marvel at. This operation by Surefire Intelligence just feels like something lifted from the idea for a disregarded Kafka novel, or an idea that Ray Bradbury might have thrown away as being too preposterous to get published. And I didn't even post the story published by The Daily Beast.

Absolutely wild. All these GOP operatives who are trying to frame Mueller while simultaneously seeking to diminish the #MeToo movement. The women were the ones who were approached by this man and they reported this. So yes, do believe the women because they refused to perpetrate a fraud.