Category: Ethics
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When we are like Anne
“Despite everything, I believe people are good at heart.” I’m so glad Anne Frank could believe this. It’s a testament to her own goodness. It is not a testament to human nature itself, though. It tells us more about Anne than it does about ourselves. I don’t believe it. I don’t attribute my disbelief to…
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Fail, fail again.
UPDATED at bottom Apparently since February, Amazon.com has been de-ranking books that are gay-themed in some way, thus basically making them unsearchable as titles on the site, and taking them out of the view of potential readers. I don’t have the “facts” on this, but it does seem to be true. There are many titles…
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Telling Lies to the Young Is Wrong
I came across this poem in the comments section of Justine Larbalestier’s blog, posted there by Chris McClaren, and had to steal it to post over here as well. It’s just too good, and sums up my feelings in recent years about how we should teach our children and ourselves to look at the world.…
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Extinction
It’s this sort of news that always makes me really sad. Is it just me? I don’t know. I don’t really hear people talk about the loss of a species ever. For some reason it’s always been something that hits me in the gut.
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Talk about something coming back to haunt
Reading this story from the New York Times about the woman who resigned from her dean of admissions post at M.I.T. after it was leaked by someone she never received a Bachelor’s Degree oh, about thirty years ago, which is required for her job, and which she seemed to have lied about having years ago,…