Then hey, I had Hulu now, so binge season 2 of 'A Handmaid's Tale'.

The 'Bows hit Navy fast and furious from the opening kickoff, and were already up 28-0 four minutes into the 2nd quarter. While the Middies tried to make a game of it, their defense was clearly overmatched by Hawaii's resurrected run-and-shoot offense. It was UH's most impressive victory on the gridiron in over 10 years, and they were all the buzz around town for the rest of the weekend.

Prosecutors said Friday that they misunderstood text messages used as the basis of a claim that Maria Butina offered to trade sex for access -- an extraordinary admission that threatens to undercut the government's cloak-and-dagger portrayal of the young Russian accused of working to infiltrate American political circles.

Williams accused umpire Carlos Ramos of sexism after she was handed a series of code violations during Saturday's match.
Ramos first gave Williams a code violation warning for coaching after he ruled that her coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, gave her hand signals from the stands.
Then she got a point penalty for smashing her racket, followed by a game penalty for verbal abuse after she confronted the umpire.
"You stole a point from me and you are a thief," Williams told Ramos prompting the game penalty ruling....

...For Christine Brennan, a CNN sports analyst, the clashes between Williams and the umpire show that women are not being treated equally in the tennis world.
"We know that there's quite a history to it. Think of John McEnroe, think of Ilie Nastase, Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi. These men all berated chair umpires, famously so. Commercials have been made. McEnroe has done, 'you can't be serious' and all the other tirades, top of his lungs over the years and none of them received a game penalty," Brennan said.

It looks like the filmmakers are going to blame the judge and prosecution for the verdict.  They didn't like the judge because she ruled the prosecution couldn't talk about "racial profiling" and they didn't like the prosecution because they didn't prep their witnesses very well.  Perhaps Bao could have been prepped better but I don't think there was any realistic hope Jeantel was going to help the state's case.

Jeralyn talks about how the lead investigator, Chris Serino, might have been pressured into recommending a manslaughter charge. Sounds like it was some kind of a compromise.  The mob wanted murder, Serino probably didn't want any charges, so he gave them something in the middle.

"I was very scared. I've never been confronted like that, never been assaulted like that, if you will, ever,...
...It felt like I was tackled, or someone hit me from behind with something. I left my feet, and slid along the ground,"
Later in the interview, Drejka apologized to McGlockton's family.
"I'm sorry. That's all I can really say to them. ...Thinking about it, would you accept those kinds of words from someone? I don't think I would," he said. "I think there's too much hate already ... for me to be able to say anything that would make any kind of difference," he said.

Democratic Activist Ousts Incumbent Massachusetts Congressman in Primary

At one point in "Hereditary," Ari Aster's highly effective new horror movie, a character screams "Get out!" It's not yet clear what she means -- or who, exactly, she's addressing -- but the line is both a pretty good jolt and a clever meta-joke.

Invoking the title of the movie that set a new standard for commercial success, cultural prestige and societal relevance in an often-underestimated genre may be a way of acknowledging the raised expectations of the audience. What "Hereditary" shares with "Get Out" -- apart from a house full of white people behaving strangely -- is an ambitious energy, a sense that the creaky old machinery of horror can be adapted to new and exciting uses.

NYTimes review

Do you think they know Mueller still has a trial or two to run?  That he's going to be doing this for months anyway.

Issues in this election include:

• Making the taxes on pensions the same as payroll taxes.

• Triple the RUT tax.

• Subsidize dental care the same as health care.

• Increase retirement age from 61 to 63.

• Criminalize all forms of support for terrorism.

• Introduce a meat tax. Levy an airline ticket fee for the environment. Increase the petrol tax.

• Fund and build two high-speed train routes.

• Have the National government manage schools eliminating local school board control. A related issue is to tighten government oversight of `faith schools' and cap the number.

• Introduce a 70% wage category for new immigrants and young people entering the workforce (30% of time at work to be spent on education and workplace training).

• Eliminate the government employment agency.

• Companies operating in public service should be banned from making profits or have their profits restricted.
  

I heard that term today in pundit land and wanted to know more.  I found this

A Brief History of Existential Terror

It has several LOL charts with names like "The Dose Response Curve and Existential Terror"

Oddly I read Victor Frankls book Mans Search for Meaning when I was very young.  Really, maybe a junior in HS.  I can't remember why I would have.  Maybe the suggestion of a teacher.  It made an impression.