It seems like there's a few that get cancelled before they fall apart. Or where they just end because the lead wants a movie career. (Nowadays though you might be better off, critical wise, in TV.)

Maher was removed from ABC in 2002 possibly over comments about the 9/11 highjackers.

I don't know that they should cancel his show or anything, but Chance has a right to say he feels they should. And he has a right to be offended. This isn't like some Ivy League WASP being upset a professor said "niggardly" and used it with its actual, non-offensive, meaning.

I totally get being annoyed when a bunch of rich able-bodied white people get offended on other people's behalf without seeing if they even care.

I disagree with him (her?) some, but this is a stupid attitude.

Although I think resentment at "word police" may have actually been a factor my guess would be that was a factor more for moderate to conservative Democrats. People getting whiny at say Joe Manchin for supporting some Trump nominees would be more relevant then.

Is there any evidence that, other than donating to the Democratic Party, Maher's show actually helps your side?

This is the defense people briefly used for Bob Packwood. That he was a pro-feminist Republican and blah blah.

A part of me sometimes thinks liberal type people are a bit more willing to show black churches as positive than white churches.

I guess they could have had the character just be a white South Dakotan. Some of the jokes are just about her having a South Dakota or humble origin and that wouldn't necessarily change if she was a white girl from Rapid City or even Dupree, South Dakota. (Dupree is a small town on a reservation, but looked to be 29%…

There's several gaps in Wikipedia despite its hugeness. The "key demographic" for Wikipedia tends to be men under 40. The further you get from that demographic's interest the poorer it tends to be to at least some extent.

Oh dang, that (David Tomlinson involved story) is horrible.

The woman who voiced Mrs Brisbee, Elizabeth Hartman, on The Secret of NIMH had been in movies back to Patch of Blue. The Secret of NIMH was her last role and five years later, she "committed suicide by jumping from the window of her fifth floor apartment."

They don't have rational souls, I don't think the teaching is they have no souls of any kind.

Thing that's maybe not mentioned much is I would think we have also learned a good deal about veterinary medicine from animal testing. And sure those animals are all dead too, but like the humans they maybe lived longer lives due to it.

In fairness I don't think all the English were anti-vivisectionist and I would guess some of the anti-vivisectionist were also against colonialism. Although it is true many who deemed themselves "progressive" saw colonialism as good. That the British were getting rid of slavery, widow burning, etc and leading them to…

Dogs are a creation of humans and often are damaging to the ecosystem. They don't really have a role, I don't think, that couldn't be filled by wolves or possibly coyotes.

I generally lean in that direction too. Species in general tend to care about the preservation of their own species, not every species on the planet. And a human being frankly has so much more potential than a dog does. For our species and others. A human being discovered the rabies vaccine. Nothing an individual dog…

She had him so she could snag her husband so that's not great.

I thought at some point they might indicate her Mom secretly had an affair with a white guy.