As I explained in my Jack Marshall day post last year, my plan was to write about Jack Marshall's Ethics Alarms blog once a year. My few remaining readers may have noticed that I missed the anniversary date.When I first started reading his Ethics Alarms blog all those years ago, I found Jack to be a fascinating writer and a seemingly endless source of great topics to blog … [Read more...] about So much for Jack Marshall Day…
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Why I’m Posting About Jack Marshall Here
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
Jack Marshall Watch – Special Ethics Abdication Edition
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
Jack Marshall Watch – 2018-09-25
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 Marshall Watch 2018-09-18
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