Tag Archives: professionalism
Ethics Dunce: The Daily Beast
A volley ball is not a human being. Continue reading
Filed under Ethics Dunces, Popular Culture, Journalism & Media, Around the World, The Internet, Character
Teacher Manuael Ernest Dillow: An Ethics Dunce, But, Of Course, An Aberration
All of these outrageous teachers are aberrations. Lots and lots of aberrations. Continue reading
Filed under Character, Education, Ethics Dunces, Gender and Sex, Professions
Our Untrusted Professions: Another One Bites The Dust…Or Should.
One of the few professions we trust is pharmacists. It appears even that trust is undeserved. Continue reading
Greg Smith’s Urgent Ethics Alarm
Greg Smith blows a whistle on Goldman Sachs’ ethical culture. Whatever his motives, his ethical message is correct. Continue reading
Filed under Business & Commercial, Character, Finance, Journalism & Media, Leadership, Professions, U.S. Society
Ethics Dunce: NY Times Columnist Charles M. Blow, and the Times, If It Doesn’t Do Something About Him
Charles M. Blow just slurred Mitt Romney’s faith, and it appears to be fine with his bosses at the New York Times. Continue reading
The Emma Sullivan Affair: Not Just An Aberration
I believe 2011 is the year in which the teaching and school administration professions reached the tipping point where it is no longer rational to trust them. Does that mean that every single school, administrator and teacher is untrustworthy? No, of course not. What it means is that the education professional culture no longer rejects or even discourages incompetence, warped priorities and cowardice, so that parents and students cannot assume that problems or even regular duties will be handled fairly or well. Continue reading
Filed under Character, Education, Professions, Workplace
Comment of the Day: “The Darkness of the Right, Pissing Away American Values”
In this entertaining Comment of the Day, Haddit (who, I gather, has “haddit” with all this ethics talk) gives a bravura performance of exactly where ethics-free thinking will get you in this and other war-related issues. Continue reading →
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Filed under Around the World, Character, Comment of the Day, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, U.S. Society, War and the Military
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