Sorry, this is up late for many reasons, but primarily because 1) I am blotto and exhausted after an emotional week, as well as dreading the next stage of Holiday Horrors, 2) I forgot it was Friday. I really did. Pathetic.
Let’s see what kind of new ethics topic you can come up with. If you’re really in a black mood, you might want to watch the tongue-in-cheek “Halloween”-inspired horror film “Thanksgiving,” in which a mysterious slasher disguised as a pilgrim creatively knocks off the people he (or she?) holds responsible for a Black Friday riot at a local retail store that resulted in the trampling deaths of several shoppers. Do I need to tell you what the maniac’s ultimate murder in a movie with that title is?
Ethics Alarms 
Let’s just be thankful we are now moving into the peace on Earth goodwill to men season. Perhaps we should spend the month finding the good in things rather than the bad. All that bad will still be here come January. Doing so may just help our own sense of peace.
I’m going to re-watch Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks tonight.
If any wokie friends or relatives are still around, you cannd pitch it as part of your creds as an anti-colonizer. Use This Essay to bone up on your talking points.
What’s wrong with the stinking comment tools on WordPress? It was supposed to link some text to this: https://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic25/donna3/3_2005.html#:~:text=It%20is%20thus%20in%20this,its%20own%20right%2C%20Mars%20Attacks
…and not enter the comment until I had added the fact that Jack would possibly approve, since the movie is a relatively rare “extended ensemble” type production.
I love “Mars Attacks”. The idea of having Slim Whitman’s rendition of “When I’m Calling You” save the world is so brilliant that it ranks with the Theory of Relativity. Who but Tim Burton would contrive a heroic trio of Jim Brown, Danny DeVito and Tom Jones?
I thought the first ads I saw for the movie looked surprisingly familiar. When I found out it was based on a set of 1962 Topps trading cards, it clicked into place. I had had at least a partial set at the time. Like the later “Garbage Pail Kids” (also a Topps product & still banned in Mexico), the cards were considered by many to be grotesquely inappropriate (so I loved them).
“The idea of having Slim Whitman’s rendition of “When I’m Calling You” save the world is so brilliant that it ranks with the Theory of Relativity.“
That was inspired…..and not at all how the story worked out in the trading cards version.