DramatistDreamer

Uh, did you ever see Jessica with Marshall Travers?! Tunie and Rucker had smokin' hot chemistry, IMO.

Well, @Soapsuds mentioned, Ernests doesn't seem to make it out of the 1st round very often nowadays, so fortunately, you don't really have to see much of him in matches.

Well, right now, New Zealand is taking advantage of the fact that, politically, they are neither the U.S. nor Europe, which seems to be a successful economic strategy. As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw "The more immigrants, the better. We’ll take a lot. We’ll take hundreds.”

Disturbing that while many of these strikes missed and did not hit their intended targets (the number actually went down), the number of civilian casualties went up sixfold in Syria in March. So they're missing targets but not people, which are being hit and killed more than ever!

Trump does everything to excess.

Those strings were bloodcurdling. One thing I really have to applaud Marland for is, he may not have created the best female characters but he wrote a lot of strong, complex female characters, even the ones he didn't create. And thank God he didn't give a hoot about whether they were considered 'likeable'. As much as I loved Y&R growing up (it was my 2nd favorite after ATWT), there is a long history of paternalistic writing on Y&R that is very common to a lot of soap writing. (Bell himself wasn't immune to it, though what saves his credentials is that he created Jill Foster, one of the most feminist characters I've seen on any daytime soap, IMO) . Even when the headwriters of some soaps are women, I've quite often seen paternalistic writing flowing from their pens as well. I didn't get that sense with the characters that Marland wrote--even some of the 'weaker' ones, Beatrice, even Angel-- gain their sense of autonomy, at some point. I could never see Marland writing a matriarchal Nikki Newman, for example. There would have had to be some twist to it. Nikki would've either had to have her children or her husband (preferably all) under her thumb or simply take lovers or be the Queen Bee of Genoa City's society, freezing people out at will. A grown as* woman (not a child or naif like Angel/Roseanna) with all that wealth yet still subjecting herself to her husband's whims would've been inconceiveable from Marland's pen.

Oh yes, Lillith. There was some good things and some not so good things about that whole storyline. Lillith used to scare me though-- I was only a child so she legit scared me!

Ugh, now that is ugly form. I know tennis players often have quirks in their form like errant ball tosses, unorthodox hitting stances but that is the worst!

He's rich. I'm not sure how motivated he really is, though he professes to care about winning. God, the takeback on that forehand, LOL!

I guess I haven't spent any time checking Bautista-Agut's mannerisms. It wouldn't surprise me, either way. As for Gulbis, he's got into it with other players and he's been known to have a lot of mouth in the past but recent results seem to have humbled him as of late.

This was in 1994, right?

He could be or he could be an ally. He's been pretty vocal about equality and LGBTQ issues though. Funny but no one has actually addressed his sexuality, not even the guys that I know who are tennis fans and gay men.

Trump must be hiding some really foul sh*t to risk annihilating us all.

The rumor mill is also churning about Giuliani. I wonder whether it's in regard to his relationship to Reza Zarrab who violated United States sanctions?

Why isn't voting machine flaws in swing states more of a news story?

Dangerous fish, meat stored in busted coolers, illness-causing bacteria lurking on plates. Instead of dropping bombs, maybe Trump's WH should invite ISIS etc to dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Undercooled meat. Dangerous fish. Health inspectors zing Trump’s Mar-a-Lago kitchen

Wag The Dog. I'm now actually hoping that Russia will start leaking things. That's how dire it is now.

I saw this on the evening news, NYS wants to make their university tuition-free for eligible students. Hillary Clinton joins Cuomo to promote free SUNY tuition

Betsy De Vos is stripping away Obama-era protections for student loan borrowers. In typical fashion of this current administration, of course there is no replacement on the horizon. The secretary of education just stripped away Obama-era protections for borrowers.

They say there is no evidence of foul play, but OMG! Report: Body of country's first female Muslim judge found in Hudson River

I was wondering what went on with Xi Jinping behind closed doors at Mar-a-Lago last weekend and I must say, I'm not surprised. I figure it would be Xi giving Trump a lesson on history and politics, just as Angela Merkel and Theresa May had to do previously. Trump is so dumb, guys! I'm reading that China abstained. Hm.

Carson was lucky that he was there to meet Alonzo Mourning who discovered that 'Sleepy Ben' was stuck and called for help because the regular residents probably would've left his as* trapped in that elevator.