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Wall Street Suffers “Hard Times”
A few weeks ago there was a controversy over grants given to Planned Parenthood by the Susan Komen foundation. The vice president confronted by complaints that poor women would lose…
What’s a Little Corn Syrup Between Friends?
When I developed high blood pressure, I had to start eating healthy. It was a shock to find out how much it cost to eat healthy. The food in the…
When You Have A Second Rate Infrastructure, You Have A Second Rate Country
Here in the United States, it seems we are besieged by the label, Made in China. No longer just Wal-Mart toys but bridges, major building projects and the…
Steven Mintz Has Written a Pair of Essays on Corporate Social Responsibility
Steven Mintz, the Ethics Sage, has written two quite intelligent essays on corporate social responsibility. The first was 8/24/2011. Entitled What Are Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR)? , the article is a…
Why is the Debt Ceiling Crisis a Business Ethics Crisis?
Because there are several serious business ethical questions involved. We simply be in this mess without astroturfing by corporate interests. That is immoral. Creating apparently grass roots public groups with…
Academics on the Inside Job (via 21st Century Scholar)
Can academics (professors) be co-opted by the corporate grants and consultancies? Academia is for most professors not a lucrative field. Beginning salaries of less than thirty thousand dollars are not…
Markets And Morality – Michael Sandel
This is fascinating. I was deeply impressed. You should give this a listen if you have any concern for the free market’s effect on morality. James Pilant Related articles Reflection…
eBanks Seek to Derail Bills to Curb Overdraft Fees
This article is good reading. The banks are working to stop the reform of this notorious practice. I commented on the article: There is little doubt that Ms. Feddis and…
Borowitz Report
- Greece No Longer a Nation; Announces Plan to Become Social NetworkATHENS (The Borowitz Report) – After struggling for months with an intractable financial crisis, Greece announced today that it would cease to exist as a sovereign nation and would instead reboot itself as a social network. The new entity, FetaBook, is expected to raise much-needed billions in an upcoming IPO. The social network formerly known as Greece [... […]
- A Letter from Mark ZuckerbergMENLO PARK, CA (The Borowitz Report) – On the eve of Facebook’s IPO, Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published the following letter to potential investors: Dear Potential Investor: For years, you’ve wasted your time on Facebook. Now here’s your chance to waste your money on it, too. Tomorrow is Facebook’s IPO, and I know what some of you […]
- Hoping for Knockout Punch, CIA Sends JP Morgan Execs to Infiltrate Al-QaedaWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In a covert mission designed to destroy what remains of al-Qaeda, the CIA has been infiltrating the terror network with executives from JP Morgan Chase, the banking giant. The mission, which the intelligence agency had hoped to keep secret, came to light this week when al-Qaeda dismissed two of its top […]
- Read Andy Borowitz’s New Bestseller with This Free AppYou don’t have to own a Kindle to read Andy Borowitz’s #1 bestseller, An Unexpected Twist. Now you can read it on any device by downloading this free app here. Then download Andy’s book here. The critics rave: “Andy Borowitz is the funniest human on Twitter, and that’s not mean praise… This funny book has a sneaky emotional […]