DramatistDreamer

Uber isn't the only problem. China is forced to overhaul its ride-hailing service after the rapes and murders of two female passengers. Hitch, one particular service has rethink how they market themselves to customers and drivers after using sexist advertising featuring double entendres and lewd imagery. Customers Died. Will That Be a Wake-Up Call for China’s Tech Scene?

Times Up was not a movement but an initiative that was started to address the specific problems in the gender inequality issues in the entertainment industry. After criticism from some who thought it was too narrowly focused on what are considered fairly privileged women, the scope was broadened outside of the entertainment industry to incorporate women from other walks of live and in various levels of the socio-economic spectrum. Me Too was a movement that was started in the mid '00s by Tarana Burke, a civil rights activist and it encompassed the marginalized, with an emphasis on sexual abuse and sexual assault. Her movement was co-opted into a hashtag but the movement existed long before 2017. The fact that there are folks who still don't know this is a crying shame.

There was a hew and cry? Wow, really?? Perhaps the writers should've resisted the hew and cry and simply wrote better stories for the characters they actually had. Personally, I would've left Craig in Montega with Sierra and the kids and had him make occasional appearances the way ATWT used to have Don and Penny and even David Stewart visit Oakdale. Bonus points if they could get Finn Carter's Sierra to make an occasional visit with him. In the last decade of the show, Carter was doing more TV and some of the shows were on CBS. It wouldn't have taken that much effort. What they wrote for Craig could've been accomplished by any ole garden variety villain. That would've been a good instance where a brand new character would've made sense. The ages were all messed up. Paul looked damn near older than Barbara toward the end of the series. Meg, Emily and Paul were written as if they were all in the same age group. I found Emily and Paul written as the same age group to be particularly incongruous considering their history. The other thing that seemed ridiculous was the multiple recasts. I thought it was ridiculous how many recasts ATWT had for Adam, Craig, Paul and Casey's trip to the attic to SORAS was utterly ridiculous.

Probably during the Writer's Strike. Still better than the horrendous stuff that was written for the character in the '00s. About a month ago, I struggled to get through a chunk of 2007 episodes and saw Bryce and Elizabeth Hubbard try to get some terribly written dialogue to work. I repeat, Scott Bryce and Elizabeth Hubbard couldn't get the dialogue to work!! That's when you know a script is a genuine flop, but that was characteristic of the show's final decade, in particular.

The fan who talks about how, although they never met, Aretha Franklin saved her life, is really quite endearing.

I knew the U.S. wasn't long for this to happen, yet Goddammit, what 8th circle of hell are we in now?

What is says is that writers loved to use Craig to service damn near every woman in his age group, whether the pairing worked or not. After Ellie, it began to get ridiculous, although he had some chemistry with Sam. Writers completely ruined that character after the mid 1990s and I don't even acknowledge the years that came after.

Without having yet read this article, is it the Uighur population? China treats the Uighurs terribly and has for many years and Uighurs have rebelled by committing acts that China has labeled as terrorist. My guess is with Islamaphobia running rampant in the past 17 years, this has gotten very little attention.

The director of the funeral home handling arrangements for Aretha Franklin says that she paid for many people who could not afford to pay funeral expenses. Many of the stories that I've been reading have cited her as a genuine member of a community. It kind of reminds me of Prince and how he did many low-key and anonymous acts of charity. The Latest: Aretha Franklin covered burial expenses of needy

ICYMI.

Speaking of Kenya, after assailing Obama's Kenyan connections and referring to African countries as sh*tholes, apparently the Trump W.H. wants to strengthen "ties" with Kenya. Is this the new colonizer language?

Oh quelle surprise at Kushner and Cohen falsifying documents to try to push tenants out of rent-regulated apartments. Kushner Companies and Michael Cohen Accused of Falsifying Building Permits to Push Out Tenants

How many mass shootings has Florida had in the last few years? In recent memory, there was The Pulse nightclub shooting, the Parkland School shooting, and now this. Yet you can bet that the same canned statements from their politicians will be uttered while we all wait and hope that the next inevitable shooting doesn't happen somewhere in this country. I'm so weary of this cycle. The only thing I want to hear at this point is that some legislative action will be taken to stem the tide of bloodshed. I'm tired of the talk. I myself am tired of talking and posting about this, knowing on a nationwide scale that nothing is being to prevent the next horrible event from occurring.

It made a lot of sense since both were taking courses at Oakdale University (Sierra was pre-med, Frannie was a psychology major) so they had reason to be in each other's orbit. I think one had even mentioned seeing the other around campus sometimes. Marland constructed brief, simple scenes that could be built upon. I don't know why we don't see that with today's soaps. The Casey Peretti character was built off of those types of simple exchanges. Also that same year, it was interesting to look back at how some simple, flirty exchanges between Barbara and Tonio would lead to a full-blown affair later on when Sierra and Tonio's marriage began to crater.

R.I.P. to Senator John McCain. Although I didn't agree with much of his politics and I won't forget that vote against recognition of a Martin Luther King Jr. national day, I do recognize his trying to undo a lot of the damaging rhetoric coming from his own political party, like when he tried to convince a hapless woman in that town hall to recognize Obama's humanity as well as his eligibility for the office of President of the United States. Also, that very dramatic moment on the floor of Congress where he gave the thumbs down to the repeal of the ACA a.k.a. Obamacare was memorable. I'm not fans of the McCains but I do empathize with just about anyone who has lost a loved one to such a dreadful disease. There is a strange symmetry to the fact that Sen. McCain died 9 years to the day that Senator Ted Kennedy died of the same disease. Has there been progress in the fight against these insidious diseases like cancer?

Also, didn't Beatrice get a surprise phone call from her mother Mary McCallaghan during her wedding reception at that Irish pub? That episode is up on You Tube, I saw it like last year.

My God, somebody wrote that into existence?!

Forcible touching, sexual abuse and harassment.

Capitol might have had a stronger case for staying on the air had they embraced more true to life stories, in addition to the convoluted stories about wealthy playboy Arab-ish sheiks falling in love with reporter/heroines. Fridays are always newsday dumps in trumpland (well these days, it's everyday, isn't it?)

People's rights to perform their civic duties are still having to be defended in 2018.

Farrow is alluding to one of the tech-related expenditures that Cohen made.

It's actually not just David Pecker, the chief content officer at A.M.I., Dylan Howard has also been granted immunity by federal prosecutors. “HOLY [!@#$%^&*], I THOUGHT PECKER WOULD BE THE LAST ONE TO TURN”: TRUMP’S NATIONAL ENQUIRER ALLIES ARE THE LATEST TO DEFECT