Ethics Dunces: Steven Slater Defenders
Flight attendants have remained calm and performed their duties during hijackings, attempted terrorist attacks, storms, emergency landings, unexpected births and more, but Steven Slater threw a fit...
View ArticleSteven Slater And The Rest of the Story: No Surprises
It appears renegade air steward Steven Slater was looking for trouble from the start. Nobody should be surprised. Continue reading →
View ArticleScore: Civility, Etiquette, Respect and Restraint—1, Mandatory Wisecrack—0
Ethics can be Hell. Continue reading →
View ArticleIs Flogging More Ethical Than Incarceration?
Like reformer/ lawyer Clarence Darrow, who did not believe in free will, Moskos regards criminals as "a class," and prison as a form of government-sponsored apartheid. Flogging makes sense if one...
View ArticleA Golden Rule Tutorial By Martin Short
Martin Short had the perfect opportunity and excuse to stick it to Kathy Lee Gifford like she's never been stuck, and chose to be ethical instead. Phooey. Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Weiner Joke Orgy
Our democracy is becoming a joke fast enough without the process being accelerated by a bunch of over-age adolescents. Continue reading →
View ArticleAdvice Malpractice: Good Advice Columnist, Bad Advice Columnist
Most advice columnists in the media are not competent, and some are dangerously reckless. Here's the best and worst of the breed, doing what they do... Continue reading →
View ArticleEthics Quote of the Month: Dan Savage
Savage's vulgar attack is as good an example as one could find of the importance of not banning words, even the obscene, ugly and hurtful ones. Continue reading →
View ArticleEthics Lessons of The Peter Chang “Plad Asshole” Affair…And No, One Of Them...
A Chinese restaurant controversy yields many wise sayings... Continue reading →
View ArticleHalloween Ethics Meets Campus Ethics Meets The First Amendment, And Stupidly,...
For once, a university handles an incident rationally and without political bias, and it is rewarded by the Left attacking it for not restricting opinions that it finds "awful." Continue reading →
View ArticleThe President Elect’s Happy New Year Tweet, With Musical Reflections From...
It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry. Continue reading →
View ArticleEthics Train Wreck Update: Now The Dictionary People Have Boarded The...
Now "America’s dictionary", Merriam-Webster, has decided that it is within its mission and purview to attack and mock the President of the United States.. Continue reading →
View ArticleWelcome To Incompetent Leadership And Toxic Management: President Trump’s...
Damning proof that what President Trump doesn't know about leadership would fill Lake Michigan. Continue reading →
View ArticlePolicing Ethics, Part Two: When Those Expected To Stand Up For The Law Can’t...
This isn't hard, or shouldn't be. If the minority of the public that has contempt for law and law enforcement knows that it can express that contempt without consequences, the contempt and defiance...
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