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From The New York Times, Oct. 12: "The Nets’ decision to sit Irving for the road games that he is eligible to play in sets the stage for a potential battle between the team and the players’ union, which had already been pushing back on the league’s plan to dock the pay of unvaccinated players for games they miss because of ordinances in their home cities. Irving, a union vice president, is due to lose about $380,000, or around 1 percent of his base pay for the 2021-22 season, for every home game he misses. Marks said Irving would still be paid for road games this season. The N.B.A. players’ union did not respond to a request for comment."

I believe he is forfeiting his salary only for home games because it his choice not to follow NYC's vaccine mandate. He is available to play road games (there's no NBA mandate) but Nets management is choosing not to play him because it would essentially mean they have two teams (home/away).

Interview with Jeremy Strong (no paywall). Interesting read: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/02/rage-pain-shame-all-mine-jeremy-strong-succession-kendall-roy

According to this Slate article, the Lindbergh speech was not fictionalized: https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/plot-against-america-charles-lindbergh-des-moines-speech.html

This is from Page Six, so make of it what you will: https://pagesix.com/2020/03/03/msnbc-brass-considering-shepard-smith-steve-kornacki-or-joy-reid-for-hardball/?_ga=2.123193410.83028143.1583239682-1618019011.1583239682

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jitters-at-msnbc-as-brass-eyes-moving-chuck-todd-and-talks-to-shep-smith?ref=home?ref=home

Kyra Sedgwick is 54.

What about Roman’s response to Laird saying he would marry Gerri? Was it my imagination that Roman seemed a bit rattled at the idea that someone [else] would find Gerri a desirable partner? And didn’t Logan say something about Roman wanting “to sleep with your mother”? I’m probably reading too much into this because we’ve been tantalized with the Roman/Gerri dynamic this season. As for who becomes the blood sacrifice, I vote for Shiv. Not because of the character or even the story line; I just think that Culkin and, especially, Strong are much better actors than Snook and I’d like to see more of the two of them and less of her.

Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

This has quickly become my favorite show on the network. I like the format, with the panel sticking around for an entire hour (occasionally switching one person out) and the panelists are mostly terrific, as is David himself. He's smart, has a sense of humor, and unlike most of the hosts on the network, he actually lets his guests speak without interruption. I've never understood hosts (they know who they are) who ask a question and then talk over the guest who's doing his/her best to answer. If he were to be given a weekday time slot, I would want him to keep to the current format as much as possible (probably none of this will happen since my wishes don't usually come true).

Weisz won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2005 for The Constant Gardener.

And in 2013 Tom Hanks appeared on Broadway in the play "Lucky Guy" for which he was nominated for a Tony as Best Actor. Hanks, however, did not win; the Tony went to Tracy Letts (for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf").

I missed Rachel's show but I assume she was referencing this article from New York Magazine. It's gotten quite a bit of attention, for reasons which are immediately obvious. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/12-young-people-on-why-they-probably-wont-vote.html

For an Hour Last Week, Rachel Maddow Was the Most-Watched Person on TV: http://www.vulture.com/2018/08/rachel-maddow-friday-tv-ratings.html

For a while now I’ve had the feeling that the show has taken off in a different direction in the second half of the season than the writers/showrunners may have originally envisioned. Rob Yang (“Lawrence”) is billed in the opening credits but has virtually disappeared while Arian Moayed (“Stewie”), who gets guest billing at the end of each episode, has become a major player. Peter Friedman (“Frank”) also gets billed at the top of the show; meanwhile, J. Smith-Cameron (“Gerri”), has had at least as much (and perhaps more) screen time but also gets guest billing. I know that billing is part of contract negotiations and sometimes characters and/or storylines just take off in unanticipated ways, but I’m curious to see if there are casting/billing changes going into Season 2.

Why is Shiv marrying anyone at all? She's independently wealthy; she's happy in her career; she's never expressed any desire to have children at this point in her life (which she could do anyway without a husband); and she clearly doesn't take the idea of fidelity seriously. I could more easily understand her choice of Tom as a husband if I could figure out why she's decided to take a husband.

Griffin Dunne.

Anyone who beats Serena in a major is never given enough credit. The post-match analysis is always all about Serena--how did she lose it, not how did her opponent win. The real question is will Chris Evert ever make it back to daylight after having her head so far up Serena's ass for the last 2 weeks.

Siobhan (pronounced "shi-VON").

I keep hoping this series will bring back his wife, Becky Ann Baker, who played one of my favorite characters back in Season 1--the snow plow driver in "Snow Angels."

My take on this was entirely different. My impression was that Logan himself had added the bit about making a last minute announcement re: his retirement but with no specifics (e.g., "I'll just say a few words"), not wanting to give anyone a heads-up that he was planning on staying on. Of course I could be wrong. I hope that before this season ends we learn why Logan has such animus toward Kendall. Kendall's the one who appears (at least to me) to have actually been involved in the day-to-day operation of the business while the other 3 kids seem only to be interested to the extent that it keeps them enjoying the lifestyle(s) to which they've become accustomed. And yet Logan shows affection--or at least a resigned indulgence-- to them while he shows nothing but contempt for Kendall, to the point of actually marking his territory in the office (I don't for one minute think that he was "confused"; he knew exactly what he was doing, and why). Again, I could be reading this all wrong.

MSNBC's rating are up 30% as compared to declining ratings for CNN and Fox, from Politico: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/11/msnbc-democrats-ratings-cnn-fox-513388

From the NY Times: How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance (link below) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/style/joy-reid-msnbc.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ffashion&action=click&contentCollection=fashion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

Painter doesn't put up with anyone's bullshit. He knows his stuff, says it loud and clear, and brooks no equivocating. That's what I love about him.

Wet Bulb Temperature. From Wikipedia: The wet-bulb temperature is the temperature a parcel of air would have if it were cooled to saturation (100% relative humidity) by the evaporation of water into it, with the latent heat being supplied by the parcel.[1] A wet-bulb thermometer will indicate a temperature close to the true (thermodynamic) wet-bulb temperature. The wet-bulb temperature is the lowest temperature that can be reached under current ambient conditions by the evaporation of water only. Wet-bulb temperature is largely determined by both actual air temperature (dry-bulb temperature) and the amount of moisture in the air (humidity). At 100% relative humidity, the wet-bulb temperature equals the dry-bulb temperature.