Ethics

Over the last few weeks, I've been doing a series of posts responding to things that Jack Marshall writes in his Ethics Alarms blog. I'm getting a bunch of mini-rants out of my system, in the hope that it will help me end my obsession with his blog. I've been slacking off on the posts lately, so I think I'm almost done.Meanwhile, Slickwilly left this comment on an … [Read more...] about Why I’m Posting About Jack Marshall Here

Lately, Ethics Alarms has been pretty much all about the Kavanaugh confirmation shit show, and I'm just sick of writing about it, so as a change of pace, I'd like to revisit one of Jack Marshall's posts from January of 2016, and especially one of his responses to a comment that has stuck with me as an example of Jack at his worst.In the post itself, Jack took on Univision … [Read more...] about Jack Marshall Watch – Special Ethics Abdication Edition

Time to round up a few of the things Jack Marshall has been talking about this past week or so. Authoritarianism On Wednesday, Jack started out with what he considers to be a mock definition of authoritarianism as he imagine's it's defined by Andrew Sullivan, or maybe the "New York Book Review" (whatever that is) or maybe the New York Times or the liberals or...I don't … [Read more...] about Jack Marshall Watch – 2018-09-25

Jack had a lot to say last week about the Serena Williams incident at the U.S. Open, but since I'm not interested in Serena Williams, the U.S. Open, or sports ethics in general, I have nothing to say. I also have nothing to say about Mark Knight's editorial cartoon about the incident. Or any of Jack's other posts about Serena Williams. Nor will I make more than a … [Read more...] about Jack Marshall Watch 2018-09-18

Jack started the week with a bang, as he tore into... wait, let me check my notes... Senator John McCain's funeral, which he describes as "a perfect example of hypocrisy for the ages." It was undeniably uncivil to dis-invite the President of the United States from what would otherwise be a display of unified and bi-partisan Washington community respect for a departed … [Read more...] about Jack Marshall Watch 2018-09-10