Chicken Soup for the Cast and Crew of "Roseanne"

Now all these folks are out of a job.

There are many things for which I am thankful, but the number one thing is my lack of importance to anyone but myself. If I say anything rude, lewd, crude or God forbid a million times, politically incorrect, the only person whose wrath I have to endure is my own. This is not true for celebrities like Roseanne Barr, who yesterday saw her entire career implode over a sarcastic tweet that wasn't very funny, had a certain truth to it, and somehow was labelled "a racist rant" by the Powers That Be.

Let's pick it apart. Roseanne wrote that Valerie Jarrett, an Iranian born US citizen of African-American descent, was the offspring of the "muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes." Okay, she was trying to be funny but it came off as nasty and mean. Worse, it was partly wrong: it's true that all of us are ape-like (humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA), but Jarrett has never claimed to be a follower of the Muslim faith. I guess Roseanne was irked by Jarrett's role as both a personal friend of the Obamas and senior advisor in the Obama administration. It's true that Jarrett was a controversial figure back then, with many GOP muckety-mucks objecting to her involvement in foreign security affairs.

This should help.

But hey -- poor Roseanne! If she was a Democrat none of this would have happened. But her blatant support of Donald Trump has made her a marked woman, and so any utterance, spoken or written, is picked over carefully by the Ones Who Are Looking.

Agreed, what she said about Valerie Jarrett was immature and unkind, but hardly worth the cancellation of Roseanne, putting hundreds of innocent bystanders who worked on the show out of a job. Now I'll have to make all of them some chicken soup. It might not help, but as the old joke goes (see below), it couldn't hurt.

     When a prominent and respected Jewish businessman dies, the community gathers for his funeral. The rabbi intones solemnly, "Our dearly departed Saul will be greatly missed. He was a good husband and a loving father." At this point a little old lady at the back shouts, "Give him some chicken soup!"
     The rabbi discreetly ignores her and continues, "Saul was a beloved member of the community, a pillar of the synagogue and a fine businessman." The old lady shouts louder, "Give him some chicken soup!"
     Unable to ignore her any longer, the rabbi responds, "Dear lady, our brother is departed; chicken soup can't help him now." She calls out, "Well, it couldn't hurt."