Republicans used to be kind of the "purity" ones. This did, I think, hurt Romney as he felt he had to be perfect to several groups so sounded weird.

In fairness to this place many to most here were still able to be positive on her work in "Feud:Bette and Joan."

You're welcome.

"people like you are why Trump is President."

I can kind of see the idea of it being overreacting.

Yeah. If people had a constitutional right to a TV show on HBO then I want mine! (Actually I don't, I think that would be too much stress, but you know what I mean.)

You can have a loyal TV audience and not be that politically important. We're a country of over 300 million.

Gibbs?

Considering the origin of the "n-word", I do that abbreviating with many vulgar words, maybe whites could be "blanchers." (For "Blanco" or "Blanc", a word meaning "white" just as "Negro" means "black.") Or Blancards as "ard" sometimes has a negative connotation at the end of words.

I think part of what makes it odd is Nebraska was a union state and "working on the fields" is not specific or limited to the Confederacy.

I think early on you did feel like maybe he would be irritating, but at some point it did feel the issue was more she was awful to him.

I gathered though, in part, they both took a "Say what you want, I don't really care" attitude.

I seem to recall Kevin Bacon being on an episode of Mad About You.

Hmm, I hadn't considered the TV/film differences. If there is a difference that could explain Beghe. Although Paul Haggis still seems to be doing films.

His phrasing was weird, but there are actual farm families in Nebraska. It might have greatly declined from what it once was, but it still exists. And Nebraska was a Union state.

They really should be in a good position, what with Trump's unpopularity, but they're weirdly not. Gallup had favorability of the Democratic Party going down to the point it's only 1% above Republicans.

But racism is a term that predates that sociological meaning. The earliest reference we have is by Richard Henry Pratt who was an educator, but doesn't look to be a sociologist as such. He was using it as analogous to classism, which could support what you mean in a way except I'm not sure classism goes only one way,…

Well I finished up Father Brown. Pleasant show, though I'll focus on some things that struck me weird or inspired a bit of criticism in me.

I remember finding him occasionally funny in the "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" days. I tried to watch "Real Time" when I had HBO and it mostly seemed pretty hectoring and annoying. (And I don't like that from other sides.)

Thanks. Racial issues is maybe the one area where I'm kind of "liberal." (I used to read Ta-Nehisi Coates blog before he started advocating for reparations, which I don't think is ever going to happen regardless of whether it's just or not.)