Monthly Archives: May 2011
Unethical Quote of the Month: Tim Gannon
Greg Anderson…What a perfect choice to coach young ballplayers: a felon, an ex-con, a scofflaw, a cheat, a drug-pusher, and a historic figure in baseball’s devastating steroid scandal. Continue reading
Ethics Heroes: The U.S. Supreme Court
Some Supreme Court decisions come down to ethics as much as law, and this was certainly one of those times. At issue from a legal standpoint was whether federal judges had the power to order the release of state prisoners as a necessary means of curing a constitutional violation. Continue reading
Ethics Quote of the Week: Salon Columnist Joan Walsh
In “Salon,” Joan Walsh nails a dangerous trend. Continue reading
Sending Teenagers To Prison Forever
It is inherently unfair and unjust not to leave at least the possibility of reform and redemption when an individual has committed a heinous crime before he was an adult. Continue reading
Comment of the Day: “The Atheist, the Graduation, and the Prayer”
The Ethics Alarms resident atheist backs graduating high school senior Damon Fowler, voting for “hero” rather than the jerk-in-training assessment of my original posts on the student who got a prayer removed from his school’s graduation ceremony. Continue reading
Filed under Citizenship, Education, Religion and Philosophy
Herman Cain Flunks The Presidential Candidate Competency Test
People who want to be the next president have an obligation to have the basics mastered before they announce their candidacies. Continue reading
Filed under Business & Commercial, Education, Government & Politics, History, Leadership, U.S. Society
More on “The Atheist, the Graduation, and the Prayer”
Damon Fowler, School Adminstrator-In-Training?
Either by design, bias, or because I was not sufficiently clear (always a distinct possibility), a lot of readers seem to have misunderstood the central principle in my post about Damon Fowler, the Louisiana high school senior who singled-handedly bluffed his school out of including a prayer in his graduation ceremonies. Let me clarify. Continue reading
What Competent Leaders Do: A Checklist
While we are on the topic of leadership (in the wake of Harold Camping’s failure to act like a responsibility one), here are highlights from “Inside CRM’s list of 101 Common Sense Rules for Leaders. Continue reading
Filed under Business & Commercial, Government & Politics, Leadership, Professions, Workplace
The Judgement Day Leader’s Cowardly Ethics Failure
Harold Camping was cowardly. He ducked his Robert E. Lee moment. His failure to make a statement of accountability by now cannot be excused, and is proof that he is ethically unworthy of trust, belief, or leadership. Continue reading
“ARRGHHHHHHHHH!!!!” Is This Wrong?
Is this an unethical tactic to use against phone solicitors? Continue reading
