Remember the sitcom Roseanne ?  In case you don’t, Roseanne was a popular show about a working family in a small town in downstate Illinois, struggling on the edge of poverty.  It starred the popular comedian Roseanne Barr in the title role, with the already-popular actor John Goodman as her husband.  The show ran for nine seasons, from 1988 to 1997, and frequently appears on lists of the greatest television shows.  After twenty years, you can still catch marathons of the show running in syndication, and an eight-episode tenth season is planned for 2018, so fans can catch up with the lives of these fictional characters.  It had a good eight years, but that ninth season… that’s when the grumbling among the fans began. Working hard in middle America: Roseanne and her TV family before the lottery ticket—and well before Roseanne backed the Trump ticket. In the first episode of the ninth season, the Connor family, played by Barr and Goodman and several...