Tag Archives: ignorance
The Incompetent, Iowa Stubborn News Media, Wasting Our Time and Theirs
Who cares about the Iowa caucuses???? Continue reading
The Damage Incompetent Pundits Do: Criminal Defense Misconceptions
Myths that won’t die: guilty defendants can’t testify that they are innocent (they can) and lawyers can’t defend criminals they know are guilty (they must.) Continue reading
Incompetent Elected Official of the Week: Texas State Board of Education Member Ken Mercer
The problem with this particular breed of proud, unapologetic and arrogant idiot is that if given the power, they will try to replicate themselves, soon flooding the land with dangerously ignorant people just like them. Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street: Unethical Demonstration, Unethical Supporters
At a time when the nation needs solutions, serious debate, constructive analysis, and non-partisan and non-ideological cooperation, a major party has embraced a movement with a message that is negativity and nothing else, rooted in ignorance and emotion. Continue reading
Ethics Quiz: Who is the Most Incompetent Elected Official—the DA Who Doesn’t Care If A Convicted Prisoner Is Really Guilty, Or The Assemblywoman Who Doesn’t Know About The First Amendment?
For this weekend’s Ethics Alarms quiz, I am asking readers to help me determine the Incompetent Official of the Week, when two unusually qualified candidates are running neck and neck. Continue reading
Ethics Dunce: Gov. Rick Perry
Academic achievements has a tenuous relationship to effective leadership at best, but at least being brilliant and knowledgeable aren’t handicaps. Recklessness, laziness, arrogance and confusion, however, are. Continue reading
A Brief Rant Against Irresponsible Misinformation
Despite the advent of the so-called “Information Age,” commercials seem to be written by increasingly ignorant writers, and ads that contain blatantly incorrect facts make it to the air where they rot innocent young brains and delight badly-educated old ones. Continue reading
Ethics Dunce: Actor Morgan Freeman
As long as shameless, irresponsible race-baiters keep attributing opposition to President Obama’s presidency to bigotry, I’ll keep naming them Ethics Dunces. Continue reading
Obama’s Fractured History
What is the proper and fair reaction when a President the media has anointed as brilliant states in a nationally televised speech before Congress that Abraham Lincoln was the “founder of the Republican Party”? Continue reading
