Raise topics, expand on favorite issues, just keep the topic and your manner of discourse ethical…anything but memes. I hate memes. You know I hate memes.

Otherwise, have at it.

Your turn at bat…

The Liberty Bell rang out on this date in 1776 to announce the Declaration of Independence to Philadelphia (not on the Fourth, like in “1776,” but it was a nice way to end the musical dramatically).

Surely Ethics Alarms readers can find ethics developments of equal import to proclaim today. Well, close, anyway….

The “new improved” trope was an amusing Madison Ave. tradition when I was a kid. I always wondered if it worked: I suppose it worked on idiots. I remember an “Ice Blue Secret” TV commercial in which “Katy Winters,” the fictional women’s deodorant shill stunned her friends by saying, “Yes, it’s true: I’m through with Ice Blue Secret!” as she tossed a jar of the stuff into a waste basket. After the staged gasps, she then whipped out a newly designed jar and said, “I’ve switched to new improved Ice Blue Secret!”

When Richard Nixon had his big political comeback in 1967 as prelude to winning the Presidency in 1968, wags called him the “new improved Nixon.”

But I digress.

Let’s see if the New Improved Open Forum lives up to its name….

Go into the light! All are welcome! All are welcome!

As everything seemingly spins out of control…

You choose the issues and topics, I just read and shudder…

It was, finally, a busy week at ProEthics—law firms and others are finally paying attention to ethics again after being preoccupied by the #@$%(!! Wuhan virus—so I wasn’t able to cover everything I should have or wanted to.

As always, I’m hoping that the Open Forum participants will make up for my inadequacies.

Please keep comments germane to ethics, civil, and brilliant!

I owe some forum hours to the Commentariat after getting last week’s edition up so late.

Have at it!

I apologize for opening the doors late. Actual paying ethics business was coming in the metaphorical door today, for some reason.

Comments have been excellent all week. Keep it up!

I hope you’re ready!