DramatistDreamer

I'm getting a strong vibe that Julian Castro is at the top of any Clinton VP pick list. He's young, he's Latino and he doesn't have any taint or scandal attached to his name because like Obama before him, he doesn't have a past (at least none that we've heard of). I suspect that if Bernie loses the nomination, it'll be more akin to what occurred to John McCain, he'll return to his state and back to the Senate. Perhaps an offer might be quietly extended (or not) but Sanders strikes me as closer to an all or nothing type. I know he's probably made some compromises in Congress over the decades for the sake of legislation but he's pretty much staked his reputation these days on being uncompromising, which is hard to do in a Cabinet position. And I'm having a hard time thinking of any Cabinet position that would make a proper fit for his personality.

Maybe all the excitement of the Sloane Stephens vs. Dominika Cibulkova match has sort of sapped most of my enthusiasm but my attention span with this Thiem vs. Tomic match isn't the same. Still a decent quality match though.

Did he try in SC? Hiring at least 200 paid staff and spending almost $2M in SC alone looks an awful lot like trying.

Aww, that Terry Lester clip made me wistful! If he were still alive, he probably wouldn't have returned to Y&R but some part of me believes with him in the role of Jack Abbott at least there would be some balance of power between characters and Victor might not be consuming the entire show. I didn't mind Nadine in very small, measured doses. I liked Shannon O'Hara, so obviously I don't have a problem with zany characters but Buzz should've had a limited arc and then disappeared from Springfield. I agree with the assessment of Harley, I liked the character in the very beginning. I think I kind of disengaged from the show in the middle of her romance with A.C. Mallett, I honestly don't even remember how they broke up. I just remember flipping channels one summer and seeing Mark Derwin on OLTL, which I didn't watch back then but I figured he wasn't on GL anymore obviously. It would be interesting to know whether there was ever any network pressure on Marland to make the show darker or was he simply trying to take the show in a more edgy direction?

He sure did! The match went by so quickly. Thiem look really good tonight. It felt like a final. Tomorrow its Tomic….should be interesting match. It will be if Tomic decides that he actually wants to compete. I just don't trust him.

He sure did!

I'd be surprised if Christie survived the next NJ gubernatorial election. He'd have to face a truly inept opponent.

Djokovic got booed yesterday when he retired during his match due to an eye infection. I didn't see the 3rd set between Fritz and Querrey but somehow I knew Fritz would have a lapse. Like I said before, Sam is a terrible player (especially for someone of his height and reach) but he's not dumb. He had a sense that Fritz was having a lapse in focus and took advantage. Fritz needs to get more experience and hopefully he'll figure out how to regain focus in a match when something like this happens in future. Staying healthy is also a must (I'm looking at you Nick Kyrgios!) because a lot of these young guys seem to have physical issues at a very young age now.

Does anyone truly believe that analyzing the possible motive(s) of the Kansas shooter will actually prevent the next mass shooting? The media does this every single time and each time is more futile than the last.

I love it too (lol). It's better that someone bring Querrey back down to earth so he doesn't think he can sleepwalk his way to success as he's been doing for years now. He makes no use of even his height advantage, so I have little use for him. Awhile back someone posted a meme of Sam just staring somewhat helplessly at a ball on the court as if he didn't know what to do with it (lol) I thought it was perfect to show how Sam looks to most of us. The one thing I'm hoping is that Fritz won't have a lapse in concentration. Sam's a terrible player but he's not dumb, he will seize on those types of opportunities.

Fritz is clobbering Sam Querrey so far. I think you're right about Dimitrov-- too busy trying to look good to grind out each point when necessary. Gosh, even Federer has won playing ugly tennis! Grigor needs to realize he can't look cute all the time. If he doesn't start putting in some results, Scherzinger is going to dump him like Sharapova and Serena did.

Yeah, Thiem really has been playing very well and it's nice to see. I just tuned into the match about 10 minutes ago. What's going on w/Dimitrov in this match?

Well, as dark as it was, it's got me watching. I haven't even been watching any of the current soaps lately because I've lost interest.

Maybe because I've been somewhat binge-watching, viewing blocks of episodes in one sitting the pathos does seem unrelenting. Still, as I mentioned before, I felt it was very well written (without question) and the drama was compelling.

I don't disagree with you @Juliajms, but I'm not so sure that every poster who has posted on this page and in this thread sees it this way. I was addressing that/those posters.

Can we get real about WWII, please? The Russians took the brunt of the fighting. The Russians don't fight (and die) WWII doesn't get won. It's an unsavory fact because, it's Stalin and Stalin was a horrible human but it's reality. If the Russians weren't integral to the Allies winning WWII, Churchill and Roosevelt wouldn't schlep all the way to the Crimea to meet with him but they knew that as unsavory and boorish a character as Stalin was, they needed him because they needed the Russians to fight. So much so that they actually allowed documented proof of that meeting: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference I thought that people were over the notion that the Americans and British won WWII by themselves. By the way, there were also Africans (Kenyans) and Indians and people from the Caribbean (Jamaica) who fought for the British Commonwealth during WWII. Victory was hardly a one-man show. It truly was more of a Worldwide effort, which contrasted greatly with what happened with Iraq where Bush and the neocons believed that the U.S. could basically 'go it alone' with a meager "coalition of the willing". Well, maybe to the surprise of no one (except maybe the neocons), this did not work. Ironically, the Russians warned against fighting what could turn out to be an endless war in the Middle East after the Russians, ten years fighting against the mujahedeen (which the Reagan administration trained, by the way) in Afghanistan, were shoved back to Russia after suffering heavy losses and ultimate defeat. If anyone has read How to Win a Cosmic War by Reza Aslan, they'd know that in certain parts of the world, in particular the Middle East, war is fought over decades even into the century mark, time is not a concern. How can you fight (and win) a war against people who will fight for a century and lose millions of their own lives and not care? You win by not fighting the war in the first place.

I like Kei but I think he, like Chang may be limited by size. I hope I'm wrong because when Kei's on and healthy and engaged, he's dangerous but tennis for the most part is a big man's game. Being too tall is not much of an advantage and could actually be a hindrance (look at Querry, Karlovic and Isner) but being over 6ft seems to be the minimum for Major success on the Men's tour. Like I said, I hope Nishikori can really prove this not to be the case.

Maybe he's waiting for his late 20s/early 30s to make some sort of push. I think because so many players are having longevity and others have peaked later in their career it's giving some players a false sense of security that somehow they have all the time in the world. There are no guarantees that this will work for everyone. At least some of the emerging talents like Fritz and Zverev are not waiting around, they're making moves now. Meanwhile the Dimitrovs, the Harrisons and the Youngs are becoming part of a Lost Generation.

LMAO. I just saw the score. Ilya Marchenko from the Ukraine, I think. I've never seen him play. I had a feeling Harrison wouldn't back it up.

What I'd like to know is when will Guantanamo go back to Cuban control? The Panama Canal eventually went back to the Panamanians. Is Cuba not a sovereign country? I've never understood this. Years ago, supposedly Fidel Castro allegedly said he wanted the Americans out of Guantanamo yet the situation is still what it is. To me, this proves that the U.S. still has outsize influence regardless what Trump says. Russia wants to fly over the U.S. and people are up in arms- could you imagine if they wanted to house prisoners in say, Alaska?!

I was watching both GL and ATWT in 1990, come to think of it and GL was superb that year! As depressing as ATWT was in '90 (Casey's last days were brutal!), I still think the writing was several cuts above any of today's daytime soaps. I'd rather watch 1990's episodes than any of the four remaining soaps now. In fact, I am.

I find many of the French players très exciting but are any of them really reliable? Still Fritz looks every bit like a future Top 10 prospect. I don't know what to make of the Harrison upset over Cilic, I guess it depends on whether Harrison can back up his win in the next round. Good for him, I guess? The upsets in Doha keep chuggin' along. Kvitova is out (which honestly, is never that much of a surprise), Woz is out. Any more?

Oh. 1990 was terrific quality but it just had a very dark tenor in terms of storytelling and the pathos was unrelenting. 1996 was a busy year for me, I'd be surprise if I caught even one episode from that year.

I'd say 1992 is even worse, but then, 1990 is a year I haven't actually seen a ton of. Marland's tenure became increasingly dark, for whatever reason. I, on the other hand, probably didn't get to see much of 1992. I wonder whether Marland may have had some sense of his own declining health. In 1990, he seemed to be examining the end of the things. End of relationships, end of innocence, the end of the notion of rosy colored romance and picket fence family life, the end of life...

Hmm, that sounds interesting. Okay, thanks for that info.