“I’m embarrassed, ashamed. I think what occurred was reprehensible at every single level. I think I take it very personally as everyone in our company does and we’re committed to making it right.”
That’s Starbucks company founder and Executive Chairman Howard Schultz talking to CBS … Read More
In the world of ethics, you don’t fight fire with fire. You sue.
As reported by Reuters (Apr. 17), “The parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre have sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for defamation, accusing him and his website … Read More
What’s going on? I’m gone for only three weeks and… alright, let’s get into it.
Mr. Zuckerberg Goes to Washington –
And it doesn’t exactly go well for the great Stone Face.
After the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal – in which Cambridge created a personality application, … Read More
Coming Monday: The Ethical Take: “Attack on America” Edition
One of the most unforgettable and tragic news stories of the last 60 years took place in November 1963.
I never saw it until years later because I was sitting in my High School Homeroom class … Read More
Baseball season begins in just 10 days, and what better way to begin than with a great baseball story. Football may be America’s most popular game, but baseball is forever.
Actually, that’s the title of a new book by former Washington Post columnist and peace … Read More
It sounded like a good idea.
(Strike that.)
It sounded like a great idea: one simple blood test that required a single finger prick would give “everyday Americans unlimited control over their health,” The New York Times writes (Mar. 15).
The key promise Theranos founder … Read More
There’s a moment during the first act of Orson Welles’s classic film, The Magnificent Ambersons – a period story about the rise and fall of a local family – where Welles, as narrator, points out what a terror young, self-centered George Amberson Minafer is to … Read More
