Here is a nice recap of a presentation Al Gore made in Marin County, CA:
Archive for May, 2007
One Big Pig
11-year-old Alabama boy bags a 1,000 feral pig.
Said the boy, “”It’s a good accomplishment. I probably won’t ever kill anything else that big.”
Note: A site dedicated to this triumph has been established at www.monsterpig.com. Apparently traffic has been heavy- the site was down when I tried.
Update 5/30:
Hold on a minute. Were the pictures doctored? Stinkyjournalism.org thinks so.
Blowing Hot Air
The WSJ’s Weekend Journal has an excellent review of a new book, Cape Wind
Ironically, some huge names have come out against the project- and they aren’t the evil conservatives you may suspect.
Any guesses who the hypocrites are? Hint: one is a senior senator.
Dead goat was a baaad idea
I know sheep, not goats, say baaaa. Sorry, it was the best I could do.
According to this story on Foxnews.com someone at Sony thought that using a freshly slaughtered goat as a prop at a video game launch party was a good idea.
In its mea culpa, Sony said: “We recognize that the use of a dead goat was in poor taste and fell below the high standards of conduct we set ourselves.
The story also mentioned that scantily clad models fed grapes to guests who:
competed to eat the most “warm entrails” — a meat soup made to look like the goat’s internal organs.
No word on whether that part of the evening was in OK taste.
Ethics problems at Duke
From Bloomberg:
Thirty-four first-year candidates for a master’s of business administration degree at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business were disciplined in the program’s largest cheating scandal. Nine students face expulsion for collaborating on a take-home test, in violation of the professor’s rules.
What gets me is Bloomberg’s lead into the paragraph above:
The cheating episode at Duke University may cause academics to conclude the post-Enron emphasis on teaching ethics in graduate business schools is a failure.
I think the failure to instill ethics in these young men and women occurred long before they stepped into a Duke classroom.
Who is accountable? These aren’t twelve year-olds- it’s too late to blame mommy and daddy. These students are adults, they should know better. Teaching ethics to graduate students is going to fail, its too late. If they don’t know the difference between right and wrong by this point in their lives a semester worth of lectures isn’t going to make a difference.
The pressure to achieve at business schools pushes some students to cheat, said W. Michael Hoffman, executive director of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Welcome to the real world. A person’s true character is revealed under pressure- these students failed.
