Category: Ethics, Morality & Religion
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The news report and the cartoon. Which one of the two perpetrators deserves to be charged with a crime? (The L.A. Times link via Joe)
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In my more than two years of blogging and commenting on blogs, I have been accused of ranting just twice – both times on someone else’s blog. I am sure many more of my commentaries have qualified as rants – just that no one has said so. Ranting, in my book is not necessarily a…
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Having had a chance to catch up on this week’s AB debate about "Jewgenics," and the tendency by Charles Murray, Jon Entine, and certain other social scientists to over-inflate the importance of IQ testing, I wanted to chime in. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell — not a college degree among them. And I think…
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I have made it abundantly clear in several posts and comments that I am restless and dissatisfied with the Democratic presidential slate for 2008. Unfortunately it appears that it will come down to the unpalatable choice of "the lesser of the two undesirbles" for me – never a good feeling. But there is not much…
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Politicians exploiting tragedy and fear are nothing new. No photo op, gimmick, credit grabbing or pandering is above the political fray. Therefore it was hardly a surprise that Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of New York City on 9/11/2001 and a wily political opportunist, attached himself to the momentous events of that day with the tenacity…
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Yesterday morning I came across this article in the Houston Chronicle. The story is of a law suit involving free speech and privacy rights of an anonymous blogger who has been relentlessly critical of a medical facility in Paris, Texas. An unlikely Internet frontier is Paris, Texas, population 26,490, where a defamation lawsuit filed by…
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In recent days I have lamented to myself and to some of my co-bloggers that much as I would like to go back to regular political blogging, I just can’t bring myself to gather my thoughts. I have nothing new to say about the Bush administration that I haven’t said before. Immoral and unethical? Check.…
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In October of 2005, just two months after Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, I wrote this story. After the deadly storm hit and paralyzed the city, a group of employees at the Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans decided to inject nine elderly and critically ill patients in the long-term care unit of the…
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She never told us, did she? The piety that Mother Teresa publicly professed, apparently did not touch her heart. She passionately asked others to believe the "truth" that she herself did not recognize. She served her church and followed her mission under the banner of a divine message that she was agnostic about. Does that…
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