I begin with my favorite John Wayne punch-in-the-mouth clip of all time because I am experiencing increasingly powerful urges to set my Facebook page on fire by directly confronting my Trump Deranged Facebook friends, whose outbursts are getting increasingly hysterical, separated from reality, and depressing.
Do friends let friends make utter fools of themselves in public? Yet I know with near certainty that if I finally do what needs to be done by emulating Cher…
…I will end my days friendless, despised and alone.
But I digress. I am eager to see what my five commenters come up with “in these difficult times”….
Ethics Alarms 
I rather think and believe that your days will be and are now filled with many many people who deeply appreciate you! Just needed to set you straight there! 😉
I endorse this message!
Agreed!
I don’t comment daily, but I do read daily. I greatly value Jack’s sanity in an ever more insane world.
“…I am experiencing increasingly powerful urges to set my Facebook page on fire by directly confronting my Trump Deranged Facebook friends, whose outbursts are getting increasingly hysterical, separated from reality, and depressing.”
You can’t reason someone out of an idea that wasn’t reasoned into. I’d recommend prioritizing your own emotional and mental health.
I watched the first episode of the new Star Trek series “Starfleet Academy” last night. First scenes: a hungry brown-skinned mother with her cute ‘lil hungry brown-skinned tyke are manipulated by a white male pirate who gave them food but did it by stealing with the mother’s help. During the process, the pirate killed a shuttle pilot. A plea deal goes awry when the Federation judges don’t let the mother off as agreed and send her to a Federation rehabilitation colony (those things are peaceful, contemplative camps as seen in the Star Trek: Voyager pilot episode “Caretaker”) with visitation rights for her son.
So, a brown-skinned mother and son are separated by the law and the Starfleet officer who made a deal she didn’t have the authority to make and enforce feels bad about it. Especially when the little boy runs off, grows up in harsh surroundings and learns to commit crimes rather than be cared for in yet another idyllic peaceful place where he could have had contact with his mother occasionally.
I wonder where that plot came from….
I asked on a fan group if the Federation should incarcerate children with their parents, especially since the rehabilitation camps are hardly prisons as we think of them. Or, if not, what should the Federation do with the children of incarcerated persons if not separating them from their parents? I’ve not gotten a response yet.
Hot button social commentary crap like this is why I’ve dropped history books this year and have plowed my way through “Murder on the Orient Express”, “The Grapes of Wrath”, “The Great Gatsby”, “Pride and Prejudice”, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, “King Lear”, “The Catcher in the Rye”, “Jane Eyre”, “The House of the Seven Gables”, “Othello” and am now working on “Cyrano de Bergerac”.
I need help. It’s a bit weird though. A friend who is rather a mystic told me that the original Beatle album “Sergeant Pepper” had a dog in front of a gramophone that is an old record label or something from Americas past. He believes it was mysteriously removed (he has a bizarre theory why).
So some at least who write here likely saw the original album: Did it or did it not have that dog and gramophone on it?? (All the images on the Internet do not have it).