Tag Archives: e-mail
Comment of the Day: “Incompetent Elected Official of the Week: Sen. Claire McCaskill”
Karl Penny’s Comment of the Day is further reflection on the futile effort to turn back the tide of new technology, which Senator McCaskill apparently believes can be accomplished with a good marketing campaign. Continue reading
Incompetent Elected Official of the Week: Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo)
There has to be some level of demonstrated incompetence and stupidity that mandates removal from high office. Even if I were a relative of Senator McCaskill, her suggestion to balance the budget at the Postal Service would do it for me. Continue reading
“Lethal Advocacy”: Not Ethical, and Not Protected Speech, Either
When a crowd watching a man on a ledge starts chanting “Jump! Jump!”, it is criminal as well as bloodthirsty and unethical? Continue reading
Filed under Citizenship, Law & Law Enforcement, The Internet, U.S. Society
The Main Ethics Lesson of the Congressman Lee Affair
What is the most significant ethics lesson of Rep. Chris Lee’s rapid fall from political grace? Continue reading
Unethical CYA Trick Hall Of Infamy Inductee: the Phantom E-mail
The Phantom E-mail (or phone call) is undoubtedly one of the most effective unethical methods of shifting blame when one has botched essential communication: plausible, hard to expose, and easily executed. Continue reading
Filed under Business & Commercial, Daily Life
The Right Lesson From The Rutgers Sex Video Suicide
The right lesson to take from the humiliation and death of 18-year-old Tyler Clementi isn’t that students shouldn’t hide cameras and videotape sexual relations without permission. Continue reading
So Much For “Don’t Be Evil”: YouTube and Google Ethics on Display
A depressing look at how some—most? all?—business executives think. Continue reading
