If you are waiting for Irene to hit or simply looking for some ethical enlightenment, here are some scintillating posts from around the web on ethics, social norms and morality. It is also an opportunity to check out some of the excellent blogs and websites in the Ethics Alarms links, which I heartily recommend.

Here are...

• Arthur Dobrin on the link between gratitude and happiness.

• Blazing Truth on the existence of God.

• John Stossel on defending the indefensible.

• Less Wrong on “Human Evil and Muddled Thinking”

• The Wall Street Journal on the ethics of eating at your cubicle.

• Pardon Power on why there will be no pardon for the West Memphis Three.