Fantasy: Waiver Wire - Week 4 - Thescore

Wannabe grandparents have always ruffled feathers by inquiring—sometimes aggressively—about the timing of their future progeny. They’re not the only ones to overstep: Casual friends, distant relatives, coworkers, and even complete strangers often feel entitled to ask couples about family planning. Once two people get married, those in their orbit tend to become overly inquisitive: “When am I going to get some good news?” as Shula Melamed, a senior behavioral health coach at Headspace, puts it.

This article discusses, in detail, Episodes 1 and 2 of Bad Sisters Season 2. If you’ve just finished watching the first two episodes of Bad Sisters Season 2, please accept my condolences. (And if you haven’t, here’s a second warning to stop reading this until you’ve watched—preferably with a box of tissues handy.) The gentlest and most fragile, but also the most lethal, of the five Garvey girls is dead.

Mere hours after it became clear that Donald Trump was going to beat Kamala Harris for the presidency, the blame game began. And there is certainly a lot of blame to go around: On Joe Biden for not stepping back sooner; on Democrats for so thoroughly losing touch with working-class voters; on progressives for many years of overemphasizing identity politics and the language of social-justice academia over the material needs of average Americans.

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of prison life.” The basement of a university building was transformed into a makeshift prison. Some of the young men were assigned to be prisoners; the others became guards.

Very rarely does the right movie arrive at precisely the right time, at a moment when compassion appears to be in short supply and the collective human imagination has come to feel shrunken and desiccated. Jacques Audiard’s operatic musical Emilia Pérez is the story of a disillusioned lawyer working in Mexico, Zoe Saldaña’s Rita, who’s almost too successful for her own good.

If history is any guide, President-elect Donald Trump will be placing a phone call to the moon sometime within the next four years. That’s the way it worked in 1969, when Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first pressed human bootprints into the Sea of Tranquility and NASA patched a call from President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office to the astronauts on the lunar surface.