Today is the Day – Pilant’s Business Ethics is now at a new location.

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy – Magazine – The Atlantic It’s almost impossible to hear about Flegr’s research without wondering whether you’re infected—especially if, like me, you’re a cat owner, favor very rare meat, and identify even a little bit with your Toxo sex stereotype. So before coming to Prague, I’d gotten tested [...]

Is Stepping on Teachers Becoming a National Pastime?

Arizona Bill Would Restrict Teachers’ Speech – Proposed legislation would punish those who violate FCC standards Arizona doesn’t want its teachers cussing in class—and new proposed legislation would actually make it illegal to do so. GOP state lawmakers are behind Senate Bill 1467, which would require public school teachers to adhere to the […]

Bill Moyers Fights the Good Fight

Here is a selection of the words of Bill Moyers. The first is from Salon and is in print today, February 14th, Valentine’s day. The next three are closing remarks from episodes of Bill Moyers’ Journal. You might say that this is a valentine to Bill. May he live a hundred years and continue to [...]

A Song For Occupy Wall Street

Nathan Shaffer – Come Back America – YouTube (Something I found on You Tube – You can buy the music and other works by the artist online.) Sometimes the music has a message. Related articles UConn Students Try To Silence Occupy Wall Street Song (huffingtonpost.com) 2011: A Big Year for Social Media (socialpeel.com) Wall Street [...]

Ethics Bob has some Choice Words about Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney: Liar, liar, pants on fire. Said he didn’t care about poor people, now brushes it off as “I misspoke” « Ethics Bob (Here’s a representative paragraph. jp) But appearing so heartless can be costly to a Presidential candidate. So Romney tried to lie his way out of it, saying he misspoke. But he [...]

My Welcome to My New Students in Criminal Justice!

The Declaration of Occupy D.C.

(I am reprinting this declaration on the assumption that Occupy D.C. wants as wide a distribution of the Declaration as possible. CPAC is meeting this week and it was pointed out that their future leaders would be coming from the congressional class of 2010. Well, my future leaders are coming out of the Occupy Movement. [...]

Can We Engineer Students to Where They Learn Without Teachers?

I was reading Norman J. LaFave’s Web site, Alterworld: Norman LaFave’s Science Fiction Musings on Writing, Science, Technology, Education, Philosophy, Politics and Policy. His current article, The Future of Learning and Education… tells of his thoughts on the future of education. He’s pretty imaginative, but I don’t think he’s […]

Is Giving to the Democrats Pointless?

What Occupy taught the unions – Occupy Wall Street – Salon.com Unions are in a death spiral. Private sector unionism has all but vanished, accounting for a measly 6.9 percent of the workforce. Public sector workers are being hammered by government cutbacks and hostile media that blame teachers, nurses and firefighters for budget crises. To [...] […]

When Banks Break the Law, Families Suffer

Image via Wikipedia We can see from the full article excerpted below that the banks’ evasion of State recording statutes and poor internal bookkeeping has led many families to disaster. I have read some bloggers who talk about deadbeat buyers but where are they now when it is obvious that widespread fraud and incompetence were [...]