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There’s not much I love more than a good ethical dilemma. They force you to balance the brutality of logic with our innate human emotions. So the question of whether it’s ethical to make a cruise ship port-of-call in Haiti while hundreds of thousands are suffering has kept me thinking off and on all week. (Article HERE.)
Here’s my take on [...]

Like most cities, Columbia is in a bit of a  financial bind. They are discussing various ways to make up lost tax revenue in order to maintain city services. But if you’re the local police force, I’m not sure this is the answer:
The Downtown Traffic Unit cited 17 bicyclists for riding on the sidewalk, four for [...]

So here’s one for Randy Cohen, who writes a column called “The Ethicist” in the New York Times Magazine:
I was at a store today returning an item. I had lost the receipt. When they refunded my money (in the form of a gift card), they refunded the current price ($40) instead of the sale price [...]

The abortion debate fascinates me because the two sides simply can’t ever agree. If you are pro-choice, you see a martyred man who fulfilled a job that is legal in the United States and died for his beliefs. If you are anti-abortion, you condemn the killing yet can’t help give thanks for the abortions that [...]

As the title says, this one counts as getting a boot that you can’t much complain about. Following close on the heels of last week’s Columbia prostitution sting, where five young women were arrested for placing ads on Craigslist, comes this comment in the Tribune’s “Trib Talk” section, where random people can phone in random [...]

Friday’s homecoming assembly was a debacle–amazingly hot for 82 degrees, a female flag football game that involved relentlessly repetitive “option” plays without passing as an option (thus leading to an endless run of three-yard losses), and a mini-rebellion by parched students trying to leave the stadium to get a drink. (I was oddly disappointed that [...]

What an odd week filled with weird, unnecessary racial issues. It all started with the exaggerated dustup over Hillary Clinton’s MLK comments. On the surface, they seem accurate to me. Neither Lyndon Johnson nor Martin Luther King could have pushed the Civil Rights movement so far ahead alone. It took inspiration and politicization: one person [...]