Tag Archives: responsibility
The Matthew Owens Attack: For Obama, Impossible Choices and Deserved Accountability
Unlike the situation in March when he helped place a target on George Zimmerman’s back by allying himself with a family and its supporters who were calling for blood, Obama now needs to say something to the nation about the Owens attack, and the ominous rumblings of racial violence surrounding the Zimmerman trial. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think he’ll do it. Continue reading
Filed under Government & Politics, Leadership, Race, U.S. Society, Workplace
Internet Betrayal: The Dork, The Spreadsheet, and the E-mail Avenger
When you send a private message to someone and pour out your heart, empty your skull, vent your spleen, or otherwise express things you probably should have slept on and moderated in the clear light of day, you don’t want your correspondent to use the internet as a weapon against you and introduce you to millions at your worst. It is a terrible, cruel, indefensible thing to do…to anyone. Continue reading
Filed under Character, Etiquette and manners, The Internet
Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman Ethics Train Wreck Post-Bail Update
George Zimmerman has been released on $150,000 bail, prompting more ethical misconduct from the media and the lynch mob on the Left. Continue reading
Ethics Dunce, Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman Ethics Train Wreck Division: Mansfield Frazier
Gather up all of Mansfield Frazier’s disgraceful arguments, and what you have is a disingenuous endorsement of conviction by mob and media. 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
The Los Angeles Times, War, and the Reckless, Arrogant News Media
The photos published by the Times were sensational and inflammatory, and nothing else. They tell us nothing about war that we didn’t know before, but their publication should enlighten us further about how irresponsible our news media has become. Continue reading
Unethical Quote of the Week, Trayvon Martin Ethics Train Wreck Division: Dr. Boyce Watkins
The ugliness of the anti-Zimmerman mob’s leadership was never very well disguised, but Dr. Watkins’ candor ripped off the whole mask. Continue reading
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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