DramatistDreamer

Her mentions are in shambles and it's what she deserves.

I wish that people had paid more attention to voter suppression before we got to this point. It has been a consistent problem, particularly in areas with a large African American population. If this had been more of a talking point when talking about 2016 battleground states, perhaps we wouldn't be seeing what we're witnessing in Georgia right now. Perhaps Kemp wouldn't have managed to keep his position as Secretary of the state of GA while simultaneously running for one of the state's most prominent positions.

Neither rain, nor wind, nor darkness of overcast skies, kept me from my appointed mission today- I Voted! Actually I went this morning so I voted as the first light drops began to fall. I was outta there and back at my desk when the heavy rains started to come down. Since I went at an off-peak time, my polling station wasn't crowded but it did have a consistent flow of people in an out, which will likely change after 3 p.m. I'm hearing reports of long lines from friends who live in larger cities though.

Janet Jackson alludes to the fact that she'd been silenced over years.

For me, it's not even about that specifically. Isner's game is utterly predictable. If a player can successfully manage the trajectory of the ball coming down from his ball-strike (especially on serve), they can manage his game. The variety is almost completely non-existent. It's usually a question of whether his opponent can manage the high bounces coming off his ball-striking. His movement is not as lumbering as it used to be but a crisp shot-maker and a very clean hitter of the ball who can find a target with accuracy and hit the ball right past or behind him pretty consistently. He causes discomfort to some players, mainly because of the trajectory of the ball coming off his serves but a good portion of the Tour is fine with playing him. To a certain extent, you're right about Anderson. He has shown more variety in his game by adding a bigger arsenal of shots to his game (which is what any player would want to keep opponents off-kilter) but for me, in terms of the sheer entertainment factor, I find Anderson to be lacking. It still depends on his opponent, whether I stay attentive or completely zone out in his matches. He alone, under his own power, cannot keep me interested in watching his matches.

Since it's the debut for both Anderson and Isner, maybe they'll both crash out early. Yes, it sounds mean but their tennis is just not interesting to watch.

Ben loves to post tweets like that, probably so that he can watch the infighting between fanbases taking place in his Mentions and subtweets.

Trump hates black people yet he cannot resist using aspects of our culture, including our music to try to boost his appeal. And according to his calculation, Rihanna would hail from one of those sh*thole countries he can't stop railing about. Hmph. I hope Rihanna and Pharrell sue his ass off. Interesting stat presented here.

Hollywood is no different from any other industry in America where abuses happen daily but fail to get attention. But since the thread does highlight Hollywood and speaking of Gayle King (who I knew was a TV news anchor before I learned she was Oprah's friend), this is a snippet of an interview with Mira Sorvino this morning.

It's more likely that his father named him since his father is Armenian. Yes, Agassi is ethnically Armenian, though his father was from Iran. I don't know if you remember the tennis player Sargis Sargsian (he's friends with Andre) who retired sometime ago but he is also Armenian. Not for nothing but Serena's husband is Armenian-American too.

An article on the very poignant meeting between the pastor at Mother Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston and the rabbi at Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh. Anguished by ‘Spiral of Hate,’ Charleston Pastor and Pittsburgh Rabbi Grieve as One

Karen is also half-Armenian. The name Karen as a male name is popular in Armenian and other Central Asian/Near Mideast countries.

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?