Let’s get the month off to a rousing start, shall we?

All topics, opinions and analysis are welcome, as long as they are related to ethics. Non-political topics are especially welcome, since the opposite has been sucking all the air out of the metaphorical ethics room of late.

Me, I’m obsessed with fighting the cognitive dissonance scale and ugly schadenfreude, thanks to a celebrity I thoroughly detest being (apparently) innocently involved in a tragedy right out of a “Murder She Wrote” plot.

You, however, can be obsessed here and now abut whatever you choose, as long as it involves ethics, and as long as you don’t express yourself like Alec Baldwin, the poor bastard.

I’m going to be away from my desk for a while, so I guarantee that I won’t be sticking my nose into your 100% civil and ethics-related discourse here, which I probably shouldn’t do anyway.

You’re on!

Boy, that week went by fast…maybe because I was a worthless slug and got fewer posts up than my self-imposed minimum. On the plus side, that should leave more fascinating ethics issues for you to debate.

You’re on.

By all means, talk about the President’s vaccine mandate if you want, or anything else ethics-related. I wish I had time to do a deep dive into the legality of such a move, and I wish the news media was competent enough to do one for me. I do like the question offered on several blogs about how Biden thinks that he can mandate vaccinations when he is on record saying that he can’t mandate masks.

Since this is Texas Abortion Law Freakout Friday, I ask, though do not insist, that abortion related posts be entered on one of the specific entries here on that topic.

I’m doing a musical legal ethics program via Zoom, so I will be counting on the commentariat to keep things hopping here.

Not to jinx it, but I notice that nobody has ever abused an open forum. Not all of the entries are classics, but none are emotional, ill-informed, ethics-tone deaf jabbering either. This is because the commenters who avail themselves of the weekly open fora are serious and thoughtful.

I obsess about the decline in Ethics Alarms traffic, but the blog has never had a more distinguished, perceptive and passionate commentariat—and you know, that’s what I was looking for when I started this project. I wish we had more progressives of the open-minded sub-species participating, but I assume they would all have their heads under bags right now anyway.

Start your engines…

I completely forgot to open the metaphorical floor yesterday. How embarrassing.

Do make me stop beating myself up by making today’s ethics symposium one for the ages.