Be pro-social
Dan Rather is suing his former employer, CBS, for violating his contract when they fired him over a story about President Bush’s National Guard service. Evidence clearly shows that CBS conducted the investigation to “mollify the right.”
This poster was designed for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It says in Italian, “Only four percent of women who suffer sexual violence report their assailants.“ Politicians in Milan refuse to allow it to be displayed. Not because of the nudity–that is less of a problem in Italy. The politicians … Read more
The Bush administration stated in May that eight of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were under 18 years old. They now admit that at least 12 prisoners were under age. Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon tried to explain that it is hard to know how old people are but did not state that the Navy discovered … Read more
The US has been striking targets inside Pakistan for months while the Pakistani government loudly condemns the attacks. In the US, there has been no debate about the wisdom of the attacks. Now we know why: the US made a secret deal with Pakistan to allow the air strikes.
The Iraqi cabinet approved a troop deal with the US today. The deal includes a firm deadline of 2011 for troop withdrawal–whatever the conditions on the ground are. Recall that Bush and the Republicans derided anyone and everyone who called for a withdrawal timeline. No matter how you look at their statements, this deal demonstrates … Read more
I converted my Excelsior College Ethics Exam Study Guide Home from its old format (a word doc linked from a page) to four blogger posts. Blogger allows posts to be pre-dated, so I set the publish date to 2004–when I originally posted the content. Converting this content has many advantages, including: consistent site design, page … Read more
The win by President-elect Barack Obama has been met with unprecedented racial threats and violence. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin deserve significant blame for inciting this violence and hatred.
In Japan, neighbors who are fed up with a mafia war have sued the mob to get them evicted from the neighborhood. An excellent use of non-violent conflict resolution.
The mortgage-based financial crisis is not because of subprime mortgages–it is because some mortgage companies made loans they should not have made. Many lenders who specialize in subprime mortgages have not seen the their foreclosure rate increase recently.
A scientific model suggests that different personalities evolved to deal with complex social situations like trust and aggression.