DramatistDreamer

LMAO. Stacey Dash is the living embodiment of Clueless. 'Clueless' actress Stacey Dash is running for Congress in California

This isn't sexual assault but physical assault. I wonder how Locklear hasn't faced more severe charges yet. Heather Locklear Arrested for Domestic Violence, Battery on Police Officer

Why am I confusing Rubio and Cruz?? Oh yeah, right, spineless GOP politicians who only use their ethnicity when it suits their political career. Hopefully people would read click the link and see that it's Texas. And hey, someone in Florida might also know who this candidate is and have some thought as well (*shrugs*). I'm just not as interested in getting a pundit's perspective this time around.

+1 One of the reasons why I posed my question specifically toward boardmates who live in Florida is because I wanted to get away from the pundit press articles. Many of these press pundits staunchly state one thing, only to reverse their stance or pretend they never stated what was previously said anyway. They've all been practicing this special form of plausible deniability since the horrendous outcome of the 2016 election. I'm done with them being the first source of what's supposedly going on in the "grassroots".

Congratulations to Frances for winning his first ATP title. The final wasn't of the highest quality with an injured opponent but Tiafoe had plenty of competition along the way!! I saw a tweet in German where Becker claimed that he was happy in his current position with the German tennis federation and although he thinks Sascha is highly talented, he's not looking to coach Zverev.

Interesting interview with Serena conducted by Chanda Rubin for Tennis Channel.

Boardmates from Florida: What's the word on Beto O'Rourke? What is your sense of him as a candidate? Democrat outraises Ted Cruz in Texas Senate race so far in 2018

Have you ever seen the rebooted Upstairs, Downstairs? That was the first time I ever remember seeing Claire Foy. Other than that, I didn't really find the reboot to be all that good.

Just saw that Rick Gates is expected to plead guilty.

All of this talk about how supposedly armed authority figures would make schools safer but the armed deputy assigned to Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School hid behind a column and never entered the school! Sheriff: Armed deputy never went into school to engage gunman during shooting

Billy Magnussen (Casey Hughes, ATWT) is set to appear in a movie called Game Night which is being described as a comedy and a thriller. https://www.buildseries.com/video/5a9061c4e0fa1764f5754f1f/

This is so pathetic.

My only concern would be for Obama's safety in regards to those crazy gun nuts if he really did try to come for their guns. The attacks on these high school kids are unconscionable. If shame is the only tool they have to use to get some positive action, I say "shame away!" I'm really trying to ignore the Dinesh D'Souzas of the world. Since I was a child, I've loathed him...ever since I saw an interview with him on PBS where he defended the racist Bell Curve theory. People are shocked by him, I'm not, he's been a brown-skinned white supremacist for decades now. Others are now getting to see how vile a human being he truly is.

Only Congress could've passed a law that would have a lasting impact. Think of how quickly Trump reversed that Obama rule that prevented people with mental health issues from accessing certain weapons. Obama did that by executive order because that was the sole tool at his disposal but the problem with E.O. is that it can be quickly reversed by the next president. A law cannot be easily reversed, which involves action by Congress, which up to this point, they have refused to do.

Conservatives are whining that they've each lost thousands of followers on Twitter overnight. Well, they were most likely bots and were purged similar to the purge that happened last month with the accounts of many celebrities and social media "influencers" whose accounts were also proliferated by bots. Some have even taken to whining that they are being locked out of Twitter, on Twitter! Think about that.

People are still dying in Syria at alarming rates. This particular bombardment is the worst in years. Syrian Bombardment Takes Its Deadliest Toll in Years

I was going to mention Downton Abbey in an earlier post too!!! Yes, they as well as a lot of BBC/PBS series are adept at sustaining long story arcs and they remain highly popular with a whole range of viewers, including young ones. To me, it's all about intention on the part of the showrunners and writing staff. Do they have the will? Because where there is a will, there's certainly a way. I think the soap genre has convinced itself that they have to drop everything that came before (even those techniques that were tried and true and actually worked successfully) and take up the latest trend. It's why I mentioned that today's remaining daytime soaps seem to be in something of an identity crisis.

More mess from the Trump campaign being exposed as it concerns the Russian interference investigation. Lawyer Accused of Making False Statements in Russia Investigation

I think it's very telling though, that some of the longest running soaps (i.e. those that lasted longer than 20 years) had storyline arcs that ran longer (at least until the late 80s, early 90s).

I wouldn't mind if this also became a movement.