Tag: ethics

A thousand…nah, try three

When viewing photo albums, or looking through old photographs with friends and family, it is likely that one will hear the phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words.” However, there are some images that show up here and there that don’t need a thousand words to deliver their message. Sometimes, just sometimes, a picture …

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Fortune cookie wisdom

I just finished indulging in a feast of chicken lo mein (sans vegetables) and steamed rice from the local Chinese take-out joint. I reached into the nearly empty brown bag and found precisely what I was looking for: the tasty, crisp, and perpetually enigmatic fortune cookie. After delicately cracking its outer shell in half–causing a …

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Censorship in open fora?

Today I went down to Webster University in order to hear a Town Hall Meeting on the current state of health issues throughout the world. The keynote speakers were the Honourable South African Ambassador to the United States, Barbara Masekela, and the Associate Professor and Dean of Diversity at the Washington University School of Medicine, …

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