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Sarah Palin’s Ethical Debt — More than $500,000
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Padmini Mangunta
And here we see the financial implications of ethics — Sarah Palin says that she is more than $500,000 in debt due to “frivolous” ethics complaints brought against her by her fellow Alaskans. No doubt some of these charges are lacking in weight, (one complained that Palin promoted the sponsor of her husband’s snowmobile team…
Good Neighbors: Respect Privacy, or Leap In to Lend a Hand?
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hfields
My neighbor has OCD–a fact I just recently learned. For the longest time I believed she simply hated me, or that she thought I was a psycho, and here’s why: she wouldn’t get on the elevator with me. We’d wait together by the elevator bank, the little indicator light glowing silently between us, and when the doors…
The Goode Family: Does Being Ethical Mean Being Annoying?
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hfields
Mike Judge’s newest animated sit-com, The Goode Family, which premiered last week on ABC, is all about the eponymous Goode family, do-gooders who are always trying to do the ‘right’ thing and be responsible. Their PC intentions lead to ridiculous scenarios when they come up against the religious right, big-box stores and the like. The extremes…
Underground Ethics: A Subway Series. Part I: How the Emergency Gate Shames Me
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hfields
Welcome to Part I of our exciting new series, Underground Ethics. As the name implies, we’ll be talking about things that take place far below the day-lit realm, things dark and ugly, seamy and salacious, perhaps unholy. Yes, that’s right. The New York City Subway System. I realize 99% of humanity doesn’t have direct experience…
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