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Lost: Our Incompetent, Arrogant, Unethical Public Schools
Today blogger Glenn Reynolds wrote, “You know, I’m beginning to think that sending your kids to public schools is starting to look like parental malpractice.” He knows. Continue reading
Filed under Education, Professions
Ethics Dunces: Connecticut Lawmakers
No matter how you look at Connecticut’s capital punishment ban, it is either irresponsible, incompetent, lacks integrity, or all three. Continue reading
A Last Word on the Kevin Coffay Sentence
If we are going to craft an effective message to make unreasoning drunk teens think again before endangering others on the roads, who better to use to send it than an insufficiently remorseful defendant who killed three passengers in recklessness and then added cowardice, callousness and betrayal his misconduct? Continue reading
The Kevin Coffay Tragedy Revisited: Not Vengeance…Survival
After reading convicted DUI killer Kevin Coffay’s arguments and those of his defenders for why his 20 year sentence is too long, I have come to believe that the sentence may not be long enough. Continue reading
Filed under Character, Law & Law Enforcement, U.S. Society
Ethics Quiz: What To Do With a Bad Seed?
This story is too upsetting to summarize. Continue reading
Filed under Character, Family, Law & Law Enforcement
Ethics Hero: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell
The NFL’s Commissioner did the right thing. I didn’t think he’d have the guts. I was wrong. Continue reading
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Ethics Heroes, Leadership, Sports
Revisiting the Tragedy of the Dead Child in the Locked Car
Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten initially didn’t give his opinion on how the law should treat parents who kill their children by leaving them in hot cars. Now he has..and he’s wrong. Continue reading
Filed under Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, U.S. Society
“No Tolerance,” Expulsion, and Poisoned Coffee
Schools use the same punishment for calling a teacher “cute” and trying to kill her. Something is amiss. Continue reading
Filed under Education, Law & Law Enforcement
A Brief Note Regarding The Supposed Difference Between Male and Female Teens Exploited For Sex By Adult Authority Figures
A female sexual predator tells her prey, a 14 year old boy she was supposed to be training in fitness, that he should be grateful for his lucky sexual experience, Should he? Continue reading
Filed under Education, Gender and Sex, Law & Law Enforcement, U.S. Society
Comment of the Day: “A Last Word on the Kevin Coffay Sentence”
The Comment of the Day suggests that brain chemistry isn’t the main reason today’s teens are irresponsible. Continue reading →
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