Here are today's contestants:
- Carolyn Langton, an application developer from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin;
- Nikolas Polsinelli, a student from Winter Park, Florida; and
- Emily Burnham, a writer and editor from Bangor, Maine. Emily is a one-day champ with winnings of $17,201.
This week's Notable Opening Night is Sept. 24, 1976, when the revival of Oh! Calcutta! opened at the no longer a theatre Edison.
It's sportswear week, and the sewers must create rugby shirts, waterproof onesies for toddlers and tennis outfits.
Tonight's Top Pick is the series premiere of the continuation to what ended up being one of my favorite Thoughts On experiences, A Different World. I don't have Netflix, where the show premieres at 3 a.m., but I think I might have to do a little exploring to catch this. And now I really want a burger from The Pitt.
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The Swifties are coming from inside the house and I'm about to scream. I'm understanding P!nk's point of view right now. No. No one else is allowed to tell me what makes me angry. No one else is allowed to tell me what drags back long buried fears, terror, dread. This is my history. It shaped who I am so if you like me now then know that I will accept NO excuse for using "Patient Zero" in a pop song. Ever.
You wanna dance on Trump's grave? Good. So do I. That'll probably piss off a lot of people and I won't care. Trump deserves all of the shit he gets and more. Putting "Patient Zero" into a zombie movie? That's apt even though with 11% on Rotten Tomatoes they didn't do it right. It still blames the victim but this one started a zombie apocalypse so whatever.
The original "Patient Zero" was made up by Randy Schilts for his early history of the AIDS Pandemic. How early? The word AIDS hadn't clicked yet. People were still calling it gay cancer or GRID -- Gay Related Infectious Disease. I believe Schilts had good intentions and meant to show how a virus in one part of the world could have devastating consequences worldwide. He did not even write it in such a sensational manner as say The Hot Zone. He didn't have to. The story was dramatic enough.
And the Band Played On had a culture shifting reach. It terrified those of us at risk. It emboldened all of our enemies from the President down to the school board. The media was rolling in ratings demonizing us. Our families kicked us out to the street to die. Major cities lacked hospitals to take us in. Insurance would not cover us. The government only might step in, might, after we exhausted everything we owned. And then we were given poison because no company would research treatment and the government outright refused to pay for research because we "deserved to die."
ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) had a slogan: Silence = Death. It's corollary: Action = Life. It was true then and it's still true. It applies to many more things than just AIDS. I live my life by that. I live my life in honor of those who have gone before me. And I sure as hell ain't gonna be silent now.
I was there.
my best friend Jay had bones broken by Chicago police
we didn't find out until after waiting hours for him to be released from jail
Sandra Johnson, being interviewed in the still
she was awesome, we went to Atlanta to protest at the CDC
this is the world we lived in in the shadow of "Patient Zero"
we were the enemy
our lives meant nothing
if the virus didn't kill us then the police and all of society was waiting in line
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Here are today's contestants:
- Edward Tournier, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York;
- Emily Burnham, a writer and editor from Bangor, Maine; and
- Jennifer Leavey, a technical writer originally from Ashland, Massachusetts. Jennifer is a two-day champ with winnings of $50,801.
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So it's fall. Shall we talk about how far we've fallen? It seems that we've done nothing but that. At the moment the press is shocked, shocked I say, that the leopards are eating their faces. There is plenty of blame to go round but the press must bear the bulk of the weight for where we are now. If they had treated Trump remotely like they treated Biden then Trump would have been politically weak. If, when covering Biden falling off his bike, they pointed out that Trump has likely never attempted to mount a bike and there isn't a bike that could carry him, then maybe they would not have hounded Biden out of office. Looking back it seems clear to me that Biden intended to resign when needed and install Harris as our first female President. But the press wanted Trump. So we got Trump. Suddenly the press does not like leopards.
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Oompa loompa doompety doo! Here's what's on television for tonight, Wednesday, September 23!
Our Top Pick tonight is The Ark (Syfy, 10 p.m.). This Syfy series is in its 3rd season, having evolved from a large spacecraft (the Ark) where most senior staff die in a post-Earth mission to survive. Soon there was Ark 2 and nowadays, there's a home base and planet and not-so-good creatures. I watched most of the first season but can't recall much of it.
Elsewhere, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are Brothers, Survivor returns for round 51, Lili Reinhart has a Hypothesis, Fox goes to the Floor, someone in America is deemed as Got Talent, the Slow Horses are on high alert, Ted Lasso faces the Wall of Legends, and everyone wants a Golden Ticket.
Here are today's contestants:
- Greg Fosheim, a healthcare attorney originally from Milbank, South Dakota;
- Lauren Schiebel, a fiber artist from Hightstown, New Jersey; and
- Jennifer Leavey, a technical writer originally from Ashland, Massachusetts. Jennifer is a one-day champ with winnings of $20,000.
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Tonight's Top Pick is the second season premiere of Best Medicine, where Josh Charles' latest problems include an alleged mermaid. Well, Rob Morrow never had to deal with that ...
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One of the reasons that the wedding last Saturday was one of the happiest that I've been to? This was their first dance. It was a production but a loose one and they relied on each other to get through it. I laughed and cried all the way through. I wasn't the only one.
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Here are today's contestants:
- Donovan Bisbee, a professor from Portland, Oregon;
- Jennifer Leavey, a technical writer originally from Ashland, Massachusetts; and
- Mark Ramirez, an executive communications lead from Northglenn, Colorado. Mark is a two-day champ with winnings of $32,300.
Welcome to the 2026-27 TV season, y'all! Tonight's Top Pick is Line of Fire, debuting at 10 p.m. on NBC. This Cancellation League semi-favorite stars Peter Krause and Hope Davis as the parents of a family with ties to the FBI, U.S. Marshals, Secret Service, and Department of Justice. One of them will turn out to be a mole, I'm sure.
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You would think that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department would find it easier to comply with the court order banning racial profiling and requiring monitoring of the department's behavior until they can show three consecutive years of good behavior. You would be wrong. This dates back to a lawsuit against then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio in 2007. Current Sheriff Jerry Sheridan was Arpaio's Deputy Sheriff and has long been deeply connected to the racial profiling. It's no surprise that Trump's justice Department wants to end the monitoring and leave the county's million and a half Latinos at the mercy of the unrepentant Sheriff's Department and the militarized ICE. [ProPublica]
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Politics Corner refuses to hear bad news. I'm at a very happy wedding. So happy that I was willing to dance to Eric Clapton with my partner. "Wonderful Tonight" but still fucking Clapton. It didn't hurt at all.
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