I heard one of the commentators opine during said shit show that maybe Serena was throwing a tantrum because it might help her to get psychologically back into the game - so I agree with your observation. Also - and rarely mentioned - was that Serena was also breaking the other player’s rhythm and concentration by…

I’m not sure that’s how quotation marks work. 

a suspect code violation for coaching

No, as you summed it up:

I guess results may vary. I can look back on my comment history of comments that gathered 3-digit number of stars but would never be ungreyed so I just stop trying and became more or less a silent reader.

“Wherever you happen to fall on Serena’s behavior Saturday night, I’m sure you agree with me that this is the umpire’s fault.”

A third option is that Williams was intentionally ratcheting up the situation in a fruitless attempt to heighten her own level of play and intensity, and to intimidate her young opponent, because those things have worked in the past. They didn’t work yesterday.

Georgia is going to wake up tomorrow to find Russia has shifted the border another mile or two. 

Bush was on the left side of the Republican party.

It was technically monday morning at that point.  Don’t these people have jobs?

The fact that you don’t know, and none of us know, proves he’s not being an effective leader. 

Musk did not create Tesla.

Elon isn’t going to fuck you.

My guess is he’s intentionally de-sensitizing shareholders to his eccentricities and shaking out some of the short sellers.

Maybe all these cops that “fear for their life” all the time should just stop being cops. It’s like hearing that doctors can’t stand being around sick people or teachers don’t want to be around kids all day.

Something, something, hero in blue, something.

It’ll be blamed on the “full shift” thing.  Being exhausted and overworked.  There’ll be calls for more police so they don’t get so exhausted and start executing random citizens in their own homes.  She’ll be done up as the victim of budget cuts, being forced to work so much.

All she’ll have to do is say “I feared for my life” and she’s good to go. 

“...and said that neither the officer nor anyone else who may have witnessed the shooting had been interviewed yet.

So she noticed there was a person there before she noticed that person obviously removed all her stuff and refurnished the apartment?