I have talked myself into and out of writing about current events, but here goes.

Even though I wasn’t a fan ever since she scratched her crotch, spit on the field and massacred the National Anthem at a major game, I am still a little shocked at the rapid action regarding Roseanne Barr.

Not only is she out of work due to the cancellation of her newly reinvented TV show, each of the cast members, extras and production crew joined her on the unemployment line.

Those who have spoken out since the show’s abrupt demise have defended the show, but not so much its star.

I can’t speak to the show’s content. I haven’t watched it and I was sporadic at best in watching her original series.

Looking back, I remember the successful show, “All In the Family,” with openly bigoted Archie Bunker drawing laughs. The difference is Carroll O’Connor, who portrayed Archie, left him in the studio.

Rob Reiner, who portrayed “Meathead,” Archie’s liberal son-in-law and target of many of his barbs, has been on television several times since Roseanne was cancelled, asking the president for a reaction to the termination of what he had declared was his “favorite show.”

Back in the war-torn 1960s, “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” was critical of the political mainstream and sympathetic to the emerging counterculture opposing the War in Vietnam. The CBS Network fired them in 1969 with one complete show still in the can.

They really didn’t make a big fuss about it.

Roseanne really didn’t keep her politics secret. She is a Trump supporter and that is her right. She is also a racist and that is her right, yet expressing it changed her entire future.

At what point does writing or stating a repugnant political message become tantamount to shouting “fire” in a crowded theater?

It will probably differ today depending upon who is doing the yelling.

Civics classes apparently haven’t attracted many students in the past, say, 40 years, since the Bill of Rights seems to have been changed in practice. The changes haven’t been official, they’re not on paper, but they have re-interpreted over and over.

One of my college profs spent a great deal of time trying to analyze “situational ethics.”

Each day, we receive even more education on that topic and I have come to realize that the professor’s full understanding will never come.

We learn of members of Congress resigning when accused of sexual misbehavior, we watch as movie moguls walk off in handcuffs facing full-blown charges of sexual misconduct and the impression is that today’s society isn’t tolerant of such misbehavior.

The problem is the floor in the courtroom of public opinion isn’t even and some of the biggest offenders seem to fall through the cracks. We will only be able to effect change by speaking up and heading for the ballot boxes where we are all equal.