DramatistDreamer

The Mueller investigation has turned toward Hope Hicks, by the way.

With all these reboots of popular sitcoms happening and reunions and all this nostalgia for earlier shows, it feels sort of sad that so many milestones are occurring for soaps like ATWT with nary a peep, except for message boards and the occasional blog or random notice on social media.

If Georgia can go Blue, so can you South Carolina. Get crackin'.

I loved Tess! That is all.

There has got to be more to this than what information that we've been privy to.

At the premiere for the Black Panther movie.

So basically, no sanctions for Russian meddling despite the bipartisan agreement?

No, I definitely thought her winning this year was likely, I even told a friend so after the first two days when a bunch of seeds tumbled out of the tournament. I meant that if RLA had been as fast as it was last year, I wouldn't have seen her winning. This year, the first day, I immediately noticed the surface was playing faster on MCA than RLA and I saw Wozniacki having a better chance than anyone left in the women's draw, given the fact that RLA, especially in the early days was playing similar to Singapore, where the WTA Finals were held last season.

I actually think this year that RLA court was slower than last year. Perhaps after the heat wave and players playing over a fortnight, it might have sped up a bit but on a faster RLA court (like last year), I don't see Wozniacki winning.

Oh, I agree but his offensive scumbag ways are finally being brought to light. It's laughable that people are questioning Eggert's timing when Baio has a history of a range of offensive behaviors toward his female costars going all the way back to Bugsy Malone. (I'll never forget Victoria Rowell's allusion to a Diagnosis Murder co-star who demonstrated racist, sexist, offensive behavior, she didn't name names but I eventually figured out that it had to be Baio). Time was way up for him a long time ago but the exposure of his misdeeds and offensive words are finally starting to take root in people's consciousness. Charles should never have been put in charge-- he is worse than Buddy.

#TimesUp for Scott Baio.

I wouldn't be surprised if Roger catches Serena's 23 major titles.

I definitely think that the soaps should have changed their business model across the board. Only, I think that, instead of wrestling with the networks, they should have banded together and invested in a dedicated platform that would have allowed them more freedom to invest in good quality storytelling. Hulu was started by networks that banded together to push back against the growing influence of You Tube/Google. CBS eventually pulled their programming and it took awhile but Hulu is producing critically acclaimed original programming. If the soap production companies would have banded together, they could've pulled off something like this. AOL, Soap Classics and TOLN each, at various times either streamed or produced soaps to varying degrees of success-- they almost pulled this off but failed because I honestly think one entity could never accomplish this alone, it would take a concerted effort by a consortium to make such a venture successful. Also, it would take time and patience, which because many soap fans feel they've been hard done in the past, don't seem to have a lot of patience, especially when it involves change and/or technology. I hate that the mention of digital filming technique has become synonymous with Peapack with soap fans. What Wheeler did was poor technique. Period. I've personally shot film on digital as a student and even on a low budget, it looked a helluva a lot better than Peakpack-style.

After her success at the WTA Finals last season, I actually saw Wozniacki winning this, especially after so many seeds crashing out in the first few rounds.

I guess it wasn't all about spending more time with the family. Magnus Norman is now coaching Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.

A Trump appointee to the National Labor Relations board, was best known for his actions in the 1981 air controllers strike (where all the strikers were fired), and is largely known to mark the decline of labor unions, proposes to demote regional directors (many of whom are seen as sympathetic to employees) possibly driving out long time civil servants, make it harder for employees to hold companies responsible for labor law violations, especially those involving franchisees--by of course, reversing an Obama-era rule. It's an understatement to say that there are changes underfoot concerning labor. Trump Appointee Is Trying to Squelch Us, Labor Board Staff Says

Yet, people are still trying to argue that women don't deserve equal prize money. What a tired argument that I wish would evaporate. James Blake was great in his response to an equal prize money curmudgeon. His response was basically "You pay the same money for a 90 minute movie as for a 3 hour one". Also, I'd add that not all three hour movies are good, while many 90 minute movies can be lean, tight and well told stories. Yeah, I got up and after seeing that the match had already ended, wondered what happened then read that Chung had retired, which is certainly a disappointment but ranked at #58, he had a great tournament and I am sooo grateful that he put Sandgren out of the tournament. For me, it was almost as satisfying as watching Venus bounce CoCo out of the tournament in the semis last year.

It's incredible how articles about the coal industry have been pushed incessantly while three times as many large and storied retail stores go by the wayside every week with comparatively minimal media coverage. Of course, when there's an industry whose majority are female and minority, that's sure to capture the least amount of interest on a national level. Much like the latest school shooting tragedy, the 'Twit-in-Chief' can barely be bothered to tweet out a stale sentence about it. Still, the pace at which things have degraded even from 2017 to now is breathtaking when you stop and think. A president who thinks that blurting out tweets (often reckless) are actual statements and are often times regarded as such by media and segments of the U.S. public! I don't believe this would've been regarded as acceptable by the POTUS even two years ago. What's deemed as acceptable behavior has really changed dramatically.

New tariffs could raise price of washing machines, hurt solar industry jobs The simplistic thinking of the Trump administration is liable to hurt far more than it could help.

How apt that the organization is called the President's Club! Presidents Club proves the habits of the expense-rich sexist old boys network will die hard

Seemingly, against all odds, the #MeToo movement takes hold in China. ‘Me Too,’ Chinese Women Say. Not So Fast, Say the Censors.