It's cool I hadn't gotten to it yet and no reason to think I inevitably would when you typed.

What say you on his work with Bola Sete? Did they do concerts together?

It's an odd show. I didn't think I'd like it at first, but I ended up doing so. Yet I'm not entirely sure I can explain why. I do feel like it's kind of better than it has a right to be in a way. And there were some interesting twists about the characters.

Well see she's middle-aged. Oh also in authority. So it's "punching up" you see.

If we go with someone I actually wanted to see, and could have, I used to think it would be neat to see Yusef Lateef. He was so unusual, for lack of a better word. All those various instruments and he even made his own I think. Plus he seemed fairly mellow and pleasant by the time I was aware of him. And as an elderly…

fusillade762 stole what I was going to say. So Harrumph.

I was just editing to add things like that.

For me I might say most anything from before recorded sound out of curiosity. Maybe especially Franz Liszt as some of his concerts were said to get exciting with women fainting and such. Also Farinelli because the only castrato we have recorded was reportedly not one of the good ones. Blind harpist Turlough O'Carolan…

Moving to Florida in the Summer sounds uninviting to me. Hope it works out.

In fairness it looks like Maher is from Manhattan so he may genuinely be clueless about rural life or fixated on Republican racism.

I'll admit partly this is that I'm saying if black people find it offensive, and it does bring up these things for them, than it is offensive and brings up these things for them. Whether you think it should or not is irrelevant. (And if it wasn't bringing up the House/Field thing than why say it at all? I'm not saying…

No, that's not it. This is an area where I differ from one poster here. I think racism includes any belief that your race is intellectually or morally superior to another, in some inherent way, and that people of any race can be racist regardless of power. I think there's a tendency to want racism to only mean…

Mifune as Obi-Wan is intriguing as there are, acknowledged by him I think, clear Japanese influences in Star Wars and the name Obi-Wan sounds almost Japanese.

I think many people in rural America don't much like Maher. Or, more likely, they barely care one way or the other about him.

Lovely!

Yeah. I think Montana is, actually, relatively moderate other than a few rural areas. Billings I know won some award for standing up to Neo-Nazis and standing with their small Jewish community. Missoula is basically a liberal college town as I recall. And there are two counties in Montana, I think one is called Deer…

Actually that one could be confusing too given Maher is of Jewish ancestry and Jackson once said something a bit untoward there.

He has the freedom. No one is prosecuting him.

But he wasn't singing the word in this case. Maybe us white people can only use it in song.

But Sasse didn't say "field slave." "Working the fields", when referring to Nebraska, can indeed have the unsavory context of Hispanics exploited by farm labor. But Maher didn't go there.