Saturday, November 24, 2018
Black Friday: An American Holiday
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For a long time, I didn't understand why the Friday after Thanksgiving in the U.S. would be called Black Friday. Why associate darkness...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Stakeholder Management: Profit-Seeking, Nietzsche, and Fiduciary Duty
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Part I Profit-Seeking The Johnson & Johnson Credo says in part, “We believe our first responsibility is to the doctors, nurses, and ...
An Ethical Meltdown in Japan: On the Toxicity of Tepco's Nuclear Power
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According to The Wall Street Journal , Japan’s largest power provider, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), faced the biggest challenge of its...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Customers as Members and Guests: Retail Fakeness Infecting Society
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“Are you a member of the store?” A salesperson at a Barnes & Nobles’ cafĂ© department once asked me the question as I was preparing to...
Monday, November 19, 2018
Should the E.U. Represent Its States at the UN?
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In 2010, it was proposed that the E.U. have an increased role at the UN in order to boost Europe’s profile as major player at the internati...
Leadership vs. Management: Change vs. Constancy?
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In the "leadership vs. management" dichotomy, "management focuses on getting work done on time, on budget, and on target--in...
China: Mandating the Virtue of Filial Piety by Law
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The founders of the United States, most notably Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin, held that for a republic to long endure, it...
Kant on the NSA Lying to Congress
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James Clapper, Director of U.S. National Intelligence, told the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee in March 2013 that the National Securi...
Starbucks: Petty Behind the Bar
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Sometimes, as though the planets were to suddenly align, a coincidence occurs that so marvels the mind that one cannot help but wonder whet...
Sunday, November 18, 2018
Commercial Breaks on TV: Antiquated or Here to Stay?
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By the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, the impact of computer technology on television was already promising to be no...
Executives and Directors Planning to Unload Shares: A Front for Insider-Trading?
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) initiated preset-trading arrangements known as 10b5-1 plans in 2000 so corporate execut...
Friday, November 16, 2018
When Partisanship Takes on Science on Global Warming: The Part before the Whole
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams concurred on the following preference—namely, a natural aristocracy of virtue and talent over the artificia...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
The Gettysburg Address: Shaped by Small Pox?
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By the time Lincoln was back on the train returning to Washington, he was down with a high fever from Small Pox. I’m thinking the illness...
Thanksgiving Elipsed by Christmas: Will the Offending Businesses Go Extinct?
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Even as the business-sourced encroachment of Christmas had all but eclipsed the American holiday of Thanksgiving in 2013 on account of the ...
On the History of Thanksgiving: Challenging Assumptions
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We humans are so used to living in our subjectivity that we hardly notice it or the effect it has on us. In particular, we are hardly abl...
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