Category Archives: Unethical Blog Post
Unethical Quote of the Week: Nutrition Advocate Marion Nestle
If we lose the precious freedoms laid out in the Bill of Rights, it will surely not be at the hands of a dictator or renegade army, but because of the irresponsible tunnel-vision of deranged do-gooders like Marion Nestle, who, when you get right down to it, believe that only speech they approve of should be truly free. Continue reading
Web Ethics Complaint File: Rotten Etiquette in “Etiquette Hell”
There is nothing quite as exquisitely frustrating as having one’s commentary misrepresented elsewhere by a sloppy blogger, and then watching the nasty comments pile up by posters who never bother to read the original post. That is what is happening to Ethics Alarms, and thus me, over at an otherwise virtuous site called Etiquette Hell. Continue reading
Unethical Quote of the Week: WSJ Blogger James Taranto
A pure slime-job, this…well beneath Taranto’s standards, though he does dip low now and then, and as reprehensible an example of attack by unfair innuendo as you are likely to find, from McCarthy to Olbermann to Beck. Continue reading
Unethical Blog Post of the Week: “But What About Caylee?”
The post is frightening, because I am certain that this kind of non-reasoning is epidemic in the United States, nourished by touchy-feely bloggers, pundits and columnists and made possible by the ingrained habit of having opinions without knowledge. Since their opinions are not supported by facts or reasoning, they can’t be debated. If you aren’t persuaded, you’re just mean, that’s all. That’s no way to decide what is right and wrong, but it certainly a popular way. Here is wittybizgal’s argument, one fallacious step at a time. Continue reading
Unethical Web Post of the Month: William Rivers Pitt
Mr. Pitt’s rant is entitled “The Wrath of Fools: An Open Letter to the Far Right,” which, if it were written by anyone with a history of the relative moderation of, say, Richard Cohen, Nancy Pelosi or Bill Maher, I would assume was satire. Continue reading
Ethics Dunces: NBC and the Today Show
NBC has announced that the couple that crashed the White House dinner, thus breaching national security as well as basic standards of honesty and manners, will appear on the Today Show. Continue reading
Unethical Blog Post of the Day
A CNBC blog post suggests that a true American didn’t win the New York Marathon, because Meb Keflezighi, a naturalized citizen, was born in Kenya. Continue reading
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