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I wouldn't be surprised if Leon shows up, though they have yet to announce him. But as much as I loved Martin Mull I thought Leon became just such a cartoon by the end that I'm much more happy Crystal, Chuck and Anne-Marie are back - to me those are the characters from the greatest years that deserved a bit more attention. Natalie West's comic timing and deadpan was especially underrated.

I remember this: I cannot remember what happened to Bonnie on the show - I know they all got fired from the mall, but I thought she and Roseanne had a falling-out (onscreen) and I don't know if they patched it up. Allegedly it was unscripted - they had supposedly planned to use another song then found out they couldn't, so did this one at the last moment. The cast's reactions are apparently genuine.

I grew up in MD/DC and did a double take at the news this morning as well. Take care.

I just remembered how every time Dimitri and Edmund got mad at each other Dimitri would start running around shouting "STABLE BOY!!!" God, that used to crack me up. What cheese. Goodnight, everybody!

One of the show's saner decisions of late, IMO

Most of those clips are pretty good. The bit with Dan and Darlene about health insurance and Dan and Mark ("that's drywall, son") are old school.

Mr. Stamos had been a strong advocate inside the company for investigating and disclosing Russian activity on Facebook, often to the consternation of other top executives, including Sheryl Sandberg, the social network’s chief operating officer, according to the current and former employees, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters. After his day-to-day responsibilities were reassigned to others in December, Mr. Stamos said he would leave the company. He was persuaded to stay through August to oversee the transition of his duties because executives thought his departure would look bad, the current and former employees said. He has been overseeing the transfer of his security team to Facebook’s product and infrastructure divisions. His group, which once had 120 people, now has three, the current and former employees said. Mr. Stamos would be the first high-ranking employee to leave Facebook since controversy erupted over disinformation on its site. His departure is a sign of heightened leadership tensions at the company. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, Ms. Sandberg and other company leaders have struggled to address a growing set of problems, including Russian interference on the platform, the rise of false news, and the disclosure this past weekend that 50 million of its user profiles had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company that worked on President Trump’s election campaign. Facebook did not immediately have a comment.

What a mess.

Agnes ultimately lost control of McTavish, IIRC. She, Francesca James, etc. tried to steer MMT more in her first run.

The UK's Channel 4's Cambridge Analytica doc (now trending) - and the NY Times story posted upthread - have led to some more shocking revelations about and consequences for Facebook:

I really hope so.

He's having a rough Monday. This was posted with no other accompaniment:

Wow, Drake. Happy for them both.

Uhhhhhh...... agree to disagree.

I actually don't think most of the media is enabling him much anymore; I think they're as terrified of him as we are. I do think a lot of them always disdain too many Democrats. And Bill Maher is just a joke - he always hates Democrats. The media is not trying to draw attention from Trump - most of them know he is a clear and present danger and report on it, many very well. But their repertoire and perspective is very limited by conventional norms, and their very real fear of this new and unthinkable situation is also a huge influencer on their coverage - any time they can try to bring things back to comfortable scenarios like 'both sides do it' or 'just Beltway politics as usual,' many of them do, because the alternative is abject horror at what has been wrought. In a way, trying to find false equivalencies or ways to needle Democrats as well as Trump is the mainstream media's security blanket in the face of Trump. That said: Some of them are doing very good work.

He can't fire Mueller - he has to get Sessions or Rosenstein to do that, and Sessions recused himself (much to Trump's rage) and Rosenstein won't do it. He may try to dump Sessions and replace him with Pruitt (who would in turn dump Rosenstein) who is already on staff and therefore, I believe, does not need to be confirmed by Congress. Anyone else would have to be and would not make it through.

He has a very warped sense of his own behavior.

I've also been meaning to watch that.

Child care:

SMG had a magazine profile around that time which is one of the first things that got me deeper into soaps - my gay little ass had a bit of a crush on her.

Trump is spooked:

She's the best.

I'll give them about 90 days tops before announcing Alfie is back for more as well. I don't care either way tbh, the show seems like such a miserable grind. The Britsoaps have it all over us on production value and often day to day writing, but they get stuck in similar but different, higher-grade ruts just as easily as our lazier bargain bin soaps (and much like long-running cable shows like Entourage, Rescue Me, Homeland, etc). When was the last time EE wasn't largely about repetitious misery? How many times can I watch a new family swoop in and another gay kid get marginalized despite often having more exposure than American characters? It just fulfills old cycles. They can do so much more but I think they think some of this stuff is their 'brand.' And yeah, she looked much better on what I saw of Redwater. But I suppose, as Wallace says, that is not Kat.