People here insist that, but I'm skeptical. Particularly since you know I know of cases of it and they're not that hard to find.

My point is he wasn't playing a character in a script he didn't write. Maher was saying something as himself. Unless you're thinking a joke is some form of disassociation disorder he made the statement as a jokey comparison or analogy. Not as pretense of being some other person.

I don't think we should say that if you're oppressed it's okay for you to be racially charged against some other minority group. I mean Irish people were drafted into a Civil War that they may have felt wasn't about them. And in their "Draft Riots" many of them blamed blacks for that and attacked them. That they were,…

I don't think it's fair to say no one is demanding he be fired. Although I'll grant some who lean that way seem to be accepting some kind of fine or suspension instead.

Intelligence or reasoning skills is irrelevant here. "Retard" is often considered a slur and being intelligent makes it, if anything, more of a slur.

There are indeed more important things.

There's an idea you can't do evil based on the idea a greater good may result. From that thinking you maybe say "no" in both cases. In the first by not doing anything you are allowing more people to die, true, but by inaction and we deem action and inaction different for several purposes. (Watching someone stab…

True in a way, but I think it's also fair to say bluegrass is a rather different kind of "white people" than most white people here. (Some here are of rural origin, but in those cases they're largely running from that.) So including it is a kind of diversity. Maybe a kind less thought of even.

Yeah, this gets into some things I've said. I think not using the n-word is so basic I don't see a problem punishing people a bit there, hence where I've stood here, but other things do get to sound too much like blaming white people for things beyond their control rather than educating them/us on anything. Merely…

I guess maybe

Trampoline has been in the Olympics for awhile.

Men should also be doing synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastic. If need be just call the second "Martial Gymnastics" and have them twirl canes, dance with cannon balls, and do some acrobatics with ropes.

I guess the new Bob's Burgers for me. Maybe Orphan Black if it's up on Amazon Prime yet. (I'm having financial issues so had to switch to a cheap package that doesn't have BBCAmerica.)

It is weird. I guess she could say like "I didn't have any siblings so I wasn't used to anyone having a problem with that so late in life. It just sticks in my mind when I think of you and I end up blurting it out. I'm sorry." But less lamely.

I tend to cynically view it as both caring about who is in their interest to care about. I've met ostensibly liberal writers online who've said some truly vile things about Cubans and when I called them on it I got a response close to "But it's different, Cuban Americans really are scum."

"though I can't hear the term "LVAD" without hearing Chasing Cars in my head and wanting to angrily yell at Katherine Heigl."

I was a bit saddened by Russ's turn though I had some sympathy with his annoyance that she specifically wanted to save some weird looking rodent rather than maybe shifting to a cause more crowd pleasing or even more important.

You do realize movies are fictional right? And that acting is different than real life?

Can you name a Fox News personality that used the n-word or a variant thereof?

I used to think this, but I became aware there are words and behaviors that are specific to communities. Us disabled sometimes say things to each other that would probably be inappropriate for you people to say to us. I think in some forms of Judaism individuals still have the patronymic "temple" type name that might,…