DramatistDreamer

Not surprising since the French is the least accessible of all the Grand Slam tournaments to watch.

Constant lying must take a lot of a person.

When a client's legal team up and leave, there is clearly no more they can do.

This editorial is a good reminder that Kim was not only successful at getting the U.S. to stand down on those joint military exercises with South Korea but also got Trump (and the Bolton wing) to back off of their maximum pressure strategy. A plodding, incremental strategy was what both North Korea and China favored. Even South Korea (who I read was absolutely left unaware that Trump was going to offer to stop joint military exercises) believed that the incremental strategy was the most realistic. Trump truly got nothing that hadn't been done before. The North Koreans, on the other hand, got the ultimate legitimacy of their sovereignty. North Korea Is a Nuclear Power. Get Used to It.

What a great collection of pictures. Thanks for posting these, @DRW50.

These folks in the Trump W.H. sure know how to make themselves look foolish!

I sincerely hope this happens but right now, it sure looks as if the AT&Ts, Comcasts and Verizons of the world have a vice grip on the infrastructure (cables, wires, etc.). These corporate behemoths are already digging into 5G so that they can claim that for their companies as well. In Europe, the big corporations that have built the networks decided to lease to a variety of smaller companies, which keeps fee rates competitive. There has been no such luck getting the big telecommunications titans to do the same. Maybe the advance of technology will allow the most nimble start-ups to bypass the proprietary infrastructure of the big companies--allowing the smaller companies to build their own smaller networks. A few years ago, I read about municipal governments building their own community webs-- basically intranets, that are built, installed, owned and operated by the municipal government. My only question was about access to broader networks and quality of security. I would love to see this be successful. I think I'd rather pay my dollars to a local utility or a locally-based company than a giant corporate behemoth located half-way across the country.

In regard to the SCOTUS overturning Net Neutrality rules, one NYT Tech columnist argues that by the time the Obama had instituted the rules in 2015, the U.S. had long ago strayed from the original purpose and ideals of the the world wide web, which I can sort of agree with...to a certain extent. By the early-mid '00s, I could see definite changes (e.g. large telecom companies were beginning to swallow up smaller independent ISPs, which led to a lack of competitive pricing). The disappearance or diminishing of those smaller ISPs was definitely to the detriment of the consumer. Here is the article by Farhad Manjoo How Net Neutrality Actually Ended Long Before This Week

They seemed pretty close when Kim was being stalked and then went on trial for Doug Cummings' murder. They also seemed close throughout Kim's pregnancy with Chris. In fact, didn't Lisa know before Bob?

Just like the G-7 summit, Mango Mussolini plans to leave Singapore earlier than planned. The man definitely doesn't want to do the hard work of diplomacy or negotiating. Donald (if he insists on calling PM Trudeau, Justin then I'm calling him Donald) wants as few people in the room as possible so that he can give his version of events and when challenged, he'll just say Kim is lying.

More from Errani. Just do the time, Sara.

Sharapova couldn't be bothered with the paperwork and extensive doctor's exams to go for the TUE. Also, she never declared that she had a physical ailment that needed treatment, let alone a disclosure of her use of meldonium, which still strikes me as weird. I mean, we all know that Petra has asthma and uses an inhaler. We knew when Heather Watson and Christina McHale were suffering from glandular fever and Venus' struggles with Sjgrogren's are well documented, as well as Serena's history with bloodclots. Why no papertrail for Maria? Strange. Sorry but Errani's excuse of her mom's meds falling into the pasta doesn't pass muster for me. I had a relative who took cancer meds and kept them in her bedroom, NEVER in the kitchen. There is a strong warning against anyone except the patient even handling the medicine because it is so strong.

Well, Sharapova and Errani wave hello, LOL. Doping doesn't always yield record-breaking success, especially in a sport like tennis that demands skills other than speed and force.

She was sued. Nadal was successful. Rafael Nadal wins defamation case over doping claims By the way, here is a proven doping case being played out right now.

Didn't she get sued for this?

At least this match will soon end. Yesterday's women's final was far more entertaining, IMO. EDT: Okay maybe the end may not be as swift as it looks as if one of Nadal's hands has cramped. EDT: Okay, I'm hearing it may not have been a cramp but the wrapping cutting into his circulation. Nonetheless, I truly think the match is over.

Both recently trained at Mouratoglu's academy and she Cori "CoCo" Gauff is only 14!

All the other countries said the G-7 summit was successful. I guess that was after Trump left.

Oh, of course I realize why Iva was 'put-upon', given the kind of backstory the character had, it would be strange if she had never seen her that way. What I take issue was the constant drumbeat of misery, especially when it seemed that the character had taken a different path. It just seemed like dumping her into an abyss of misery repeatedly was a way of creating something to do with the character at a time when story may have been 'thin' for her. Iva was never going to be a giddy character, even when she was with Kirk, she could be dour and tough and always pragmatic and she didn't need to be suffocated under a blanket of misery to achieve that. In fact, she had more of an edge in her early days interacting with the Kirk character than I'd ever seen her before or since on the show. EDT: By the way, I come from a long line of women who endured very hard lives (at least one is a rape survivor herself). Maybe because their lives were so tough, they made time and space to experience joy. Now, had Iva been bi-polar or diagnosed with clinical depression, that would have been a good aspect to explore and would have made perfect sense for going back and forth but it was never explored so I'm only left to assume that someone (maybe at P&G) wanted Iva in a near constant state of dour misery. Personally, I don't enjoy watching women constantly being tortured by life. Personally, life is hard enough as a woman in this world and as a Black woman? Whew!

Aww.

IMO Kirk was Iva's best pairing. In the very beginning they had that witty, sharp dialogue that I used to love to hear from HBS and GM's Tom and Margo (what we writers would call 'The Billy Wilder Effect'). They even had a bit of that combative repartée, the way John and Lucinda sometimes had. They were dynamic and in the beginning, Iva didn't have to play the put-upon 'heavy' as she had in other other relationships. It was a big mistake to pull them apart without them finding their way back to each other. If Kirk and Iva were going to be involved in a triangle (of sorts), I would've rather Marland wait for Sam, Lucinda's sister. Given Lucinda and Iva's acrimonious history, Sam becoming the interloper to Kirk and Iva's fraying relationship would've added extra interest. That pairing of Iva and Kirk put Iva in a light I had not been used to see her before--they sizzled. IMO none of Iva's other pairings had that kind of sizzle. I didn't even know the Iva character was capable of producing those kind of sparks! Wow, is there video online? I'd love to see that, LOL.