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! 😉
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Agreed!
I don’t comment daily, but I do read daily. I greatly value Jack’s sanity in an ever more insane world.
Hear Hear!
As an aside, upon seeing numerous sequential email alert replies to a comment from the talented Ms. Tyler, care to guess what entered my mind…?
PWS
I agree. I love Ethics Alarms.
“…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).
It’s possible, if it was a British pressing of the album.
The image in question was owned by EMI. EMI owned the Parlophone label, on which Beatles’ albums were released in the UK prior to the creation of Apple Music. EMI used that image in a variety of ways.
It would NOT in all likelihood been on an American issue of the album. Beatles’ albums in the US were distributed by Capitol Records – which was also owned by EMI – but licensing rights to the image in the United States were owned at that time by RCA.
My question is does anyone REMEMBERS such an image?
Personally, no I don’t remember. But I did find an image and some info for you.
I had a poke over the Google search interface and this question comes up from time to time. You may even have seen a publication:
Warp and Woof: The Case of the Missing Sgt.Pepper Dog Paperback – 1 Jun. 1990 Author is Dawn Searcy. It is available as a kindle.
Amazon UK shows a B/W image with a dog to the lower right of the drum. Kinda looks like and RCA Lil’ Nipper dog (not very much like), which may have been a problem.
Interface is preventing me from posting a link to the Amazon page with the image.
https://forum.songfacts.com/index.php?/topic/954-missing-dog-on-sgt-peppers/
The most relevant comment would be the one here from Edna made in 2004 who had first copies and made multiple purchases of the album globally, and had no recollection of the dog. It’s interesting that so many people can have the same hallucination.
My friend believes (perhaps not too seriously) that it was there, but removed by a mystic figure portrayed on the album itself.
Silliness perhaps when the invasion and occupation of Minnesota stands ahead!
There is a Wikipedia page that explains the album sleeve in detail. No mention of a dog and a gramophone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_on_the_cover_of_Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band
I was about to say that this seems like an example of “the Mandela Effect”, but believing that someone on the cover removed it doesn’t seem to fit in that category.
It’s the famous “His Master’s Voice” image. I believe it was used on the RCA Victor label here in the U.S. I remember seeing it on some of my parents’ albums back in the day. I bet if I looked now, I’d find one in my modest collection.
I found an image on line and posted about it in reply to a different Alizia comment. It is not the same as the old RCA Victor logo. Some reason my security or WordPress won’t let me post the link to Amazon for the book:
Warp and Woof: The Case of the Missing Sgt.Pepper Dog Paperback – 1 Jun. 1990, by Dawn Searcy.
if you put in the following after the normal Amazon URL you should get it
Warp-Woof-Case-Missing-Pepper-ebook/dp/B0985TN4BQ
I’m certainly not old enough, so for others who might want clarity around the question, here’s the AI baseline response:
No, a Beatles album cover itself didn’t feature the famous “His Master’s Voice” dog (Nipper) with a gramophone, but the iconic image of a dog listening to a phonograph inspired Sgt. Pepper’s (with a dog-audible sound) and the dog theme was everywhere in record culture. The Sgt. Pepper’s album famously ended with a high-pitched sound audible only to dogs, a nod to McCartney’s own dog, Martha, fitting the record-listening theme, but it wasn’t Nipper.
Key Details:
No Album Cover Feature: While both The Beatles and Nipper were about music, their imagery never directly combined on a Beatles album cover.
Nipper (The RCA Dog): The famous terrier mix listening to a gramophone was the logo for Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA), not The Beatles.
Sgt. Pepper’s Connection: Paul McCartney added a secret, dog-whistle frequency at the end of “A Day in the Life” on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a fun sound for his dog, Martha, linking The Beatles to dog/music themes.
After belatedly discovering the EA Heroes’ Hall of Honor last week, I pledged to read one a week and post on the Friday Forum. Today I read the entry for Canada Lee (1907-1952), which others can find here: https://ethicsalarms.com/2019/03/06/ethics-hero-emeritus-canada-lee-1907-1952/
Final summary (from the writeup) of why he deserves the honor:
“Canada Lee deserves recognition as an important trailblazer for his race, a brave and resolute advocate for racial progress in America, and not least of all, an amazingly versatile, resourceful and talented man. Like the character he is best known for, “Bigger Thomas,” Canada Lee was crushed by the pressures of deep-seated bigotry that crippled his career and destroyed his health. But in his short life, Lee made a real difference in his country, and helped lay the foundation for the crucial changes that were to come.”
HA comment: At a time when many are bemoaning the current state of our nation (up to and including the actual demise of the country), sometimes looking back can remind us that however halting and zigzag the path, we have actually come a long way! May we get through the current rough path and find new opportunities for re-forming and re-visioning ahead.
This is a shameless plug, because this community cares about ethics and it’s clear many of us are frustrated about other people’s seeming disregard for ethics and hostility toward those who care, but it’s not obvious what we can do about it.
Earlier this winter, I was in a discussion about the challenges of maintaining relationships with people who disagree with us politically. It’s painful to be treated as a bad person just because we don’t see a situation the same way as someone else, or because we disagree on the best approach. In a healthy society, policy disagreements are where a discussion starts rather than where it ends. We should be able to be friends even if we disagree on how to build a better world, or even on the specifics of what that looks like. Furthermore, people should be able to understand why our principles are important.
The anger that people express towards different political perspectives comes from fear. People fear what might happen to society if their “side” doesn’t win. To put those fears to rest, we need to show them that we understand them, and that we don’t want their fears to come true. When they see we appreciate their concerns, they’ll feel safe and start to calm down. The safer they feel, the more open they’ll be to hearing our concerns that lead us to make different decisions from them, and even exploring approaches that we can both support. That’s how I stay friends with people from different political backgrounds and inspire them to think more critically about their positions.
To make this approach easier, I’ve developed a guided process in the form of an one-on-one interview. We start by clarifying your values on a specific topic (political or not), using a handful of foundational concepts. Then we identify the opposing values so that you can make people who disagree feel heard and demonstrate good faith. This makes it possible for them to listen to your values. Finally, we brainstorm ways to address all the values together, using a few more key concepts. This process shows us how to build mutual understanding, respect, and trust within minutes.
If there’s any hostility in your life that you’d like to replace with goodwill, don’t let it fester! Schedule an introductory meeting with me at https://calendly.com/visionaryvocabularies/intro so we can discuss your situation and make sure the Values Conversation Interview will address your needs. (This is currently a free service. Your feedback is invaluable for making sure people working to unite the country get the best results possible. )
I look forward to helping you connect!