Khan

Barbra Streisand was right. We'd be in a much different place had Al Gore been made president. (For God's sake, WHERE IS MY HAAGEN-DAZS!?)

Wait, that was Jasmine Guy? WHITLEY GILBERT-WAYNE?

As I see it, the Democrats are now in a "damned if we do, damned if we don't" situation. If they don't pursue impeachment charges against the president, many will see that as the Democrats being weak (again) and aiding and abetting the GOP in their rampant criminality. (It also doesn't help to have "progressives" such as AOC beating the drums for it among their constituents when what they should be doing is rallying behind Pelosi and her coalition). OTOH, if the Dems were to pursue the charges, or (more accurately) if we were to force their hands into doing so, then there's a better-than-good chance that it all will end in failure -- meaning, of course, Trump won't be impeached; and the media, already out to get the Democratic Party, will make them look like even bigger fools for losing a battle they never wanted to pitch in the first place. That, in turn, will have a deadly impact on the 2020 elections, and beyond. Either way, everyone on the left and far-left is officially screwed; and as grateful as I am to Uncle Bobby and his team for all their hard, back-breaking work, I can't help but feel that his words today have placed Democrats in a no-win situation. So, yeah, get ready for four more years with Trump (you heard it here first, folks -- and I wasn't wrong before, was I?); get ready for more b.s. legislation at the state and federal levels that will undo Obama's legacy once and for all and make the recent anti-abortion bills seem almost quaint; and get ready for more district re-drawing, more court packing and more voter suppressing that will leave conservatives in power for generations to come. (Seriously, y'all, when's the next plane to Norway leaving?) And then, if that weren't bad enough, I hear that Boris [!@#$%^&*] Johnson is the leading contender to replace Theresa May as Britain's Prime Minister, even though he faces charges in court for lying the UK into Brexit (no [!@#$%^&*], Sherlock). Ugh. Screw the deal I made with God earlier this year. I'm gonna eat my weight in ice cream, and to hell with what it'll do to my prediabetes.

"Desperation and hopelessness" seems an apt description for how a ton of folks are feeling nowadays. Even though next year's an election year, there remains the fear of what ELSE could go wrong or fall apart before then. For many, it's just too scary and awful even to contemplate.

Sadly, I agree. Congress must act. If it doesn't, then it will look complicit. I just wish I could shake the feeling that seeking impeachment will ultimately deliver the Democrats' fate into the GOP's hands.

Which is probably what PGP/Televest wanted.

Well, that might make the story much clearer...but it doesn't make it less stupid, lol.

You forgot Reva the Psychic!

Well, we saw what "NYPD Blue" meets Y&R was like when JFP was EP.

Nowadays, soaps would KILL for numbers like those.

Unfortunately, I say the same things about my grandmother.

Ah, but that WAS his game plan, according to his original story projections. Yes, Kelly and Morgan were slated to marry, and Nola was to pay dearly for her lies. However, Quint was NOT supposed to end up as Nola's true love -- at least not originally. I don't have the full details, but going on comments made by (I think) Tom Casiello (who had access to Marland's writing at one time) and John Wesley Shipp, as well as how the beginning of the story played out onscreen, I surmise that Marland had designed Quint to be a (short-term) villain, who would ultimately place Nola in some type of mortal danger, thereby forcing Kelly to rescue her, and launching him and Nola into a full-fledged relationship. Of course, once Lisa Brown and Michael Tylo began working together, Marland saw the chemistry between them and changed his plans. That's why I think JWS, as Kelly, floundered once Kelly and Morgan's marriage fell apart (which, in retrospect, was part of Marland's original plan), because, without Nola, there was nowhere for him to go, romantically speaking.

This, from a woman who made it her top priority to banish all the vets on ATWT to the sidelines.

Doris Day replacing BBG as Miss Ellie would have made sense.

Yeah, but...was GF ever what you would call "sexualized"? Even when she was playing a gold-digging grifter with a history of childhood sexual abuse on AMC, she still often came across as virginal. And I say that as someone who adored GF on GH, DAYS and AMC (but probably not on Y&R).

Well, IIRC, the show did acknowledge concerns about the age disparity by having Luke say, during one of their bedroom scenes, "You may be only eighteen years old, but when you kiss me, you're a woman." Or something like that, lol.

I could swear I read once how Marland had planned for Luke and Laura to become a couple eventually (although, I don't know whether the rape was part of the plan) but that he wanted to take his time getting there. I dunno, I've also read Pat Falken Smith say she never intended for what happened at the Campus Disco to be considered rape either. The whole BTS on that plot twist is murky as hell.

I think you're talking about the rapemance, when Todd, or Trevor St. John-as Victor Jr.-as Todd, had sex with Marty, who was suffering from amnesia and did not recognize him as one of the three men who had raped her years before. I also think the retcons that turned TSJ's Todd into Roger Howarth's Todd's twin brother (but with a surgically altered face) was supposed to negate that storyline. However, the fact that he BELIEVED he was Todd when he slept with the woman "he" had raped back in college still makes the situation offensive. True. All true. Thank goodness, though, DAYS never tried to sell us a Jack/Kayla pairing after the rape, like they did with Bill and Laura. In fact, I think Kayla has always had mixed feelings about Jack even after he redeemed himself in the eyes of most everyone else in Salem. Because, where do you go once you've acknowledged someone to be a rapist? You can't turn him back into the hero, and you certainly can't have him reunite with his victim (even though, to be perfect and frank, she was the ONLY female on the show who made him palatable). So, either you kill him off (which was never on the table) or you turn him into a completely different character, like how DAYS turned Jack into a clown. Again, that's what I found remarkable about Roger Thorpe's journey: although GL certainly added layers to him both before and after he raped Holly and Rita, they never swept his actions under the proverbial rug or turned him into some romantic hero/comic relief character. They let Roger BE Roger. Frankly, as pissed as I was to learn about Laura's rape and how it was turned into a "seduction" in order to make her and Luke a couple, I was just as pissed when the show brought it back up as a means to destroy the two. IDC what Tony Geary thought or wanted: you don't ask the audience to invest not just years but DECADES in the couple that literally put soaps and GH back on the map, just to have it all end like that. If you don't want to be saddled with Luke and Laura forever, then just f**king quit. Let Luke die some noble death, so Laura (and the audience) can grieve and then move on.

On the bright side, PFS and Gloria Monty never tried to blame Luke's raping Laura on something REALLY silly...like a brain tumor.

That's a really nice way to say "dog catcher."

Rick Edelstein seemed to have been a great writer all around, even though he wrote only for HTSAM and THE DOCTORS. It's a shame he moved onto primetime.

Many great photos from AMC's long, golden era.

Sometimes I forget that Maureen Garrett was also on RH.

Mama Khan had a similar experience with the mother of her first husband. (She's still friendly toward her, for some, unfathomable reason). Except, my grandmother (well, she's not REALLY my grandmother, but...) took a step farther by manipulating Mama Khan out of her and her then-husband's house as the two were divorcing, leaving her AND my older brother virtually out on the street. (Again, why they have remain in contact all these years is a total mystery to me).

Seems to me the "Midnight Cowboy" has taken one too many falls off the old horse.