Recent Discussion

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, pledged to drain the swamp of dirty politics in Congress when she took office a few years ago.  She said that she wanted to preside over the most ethical Congress in history.

Since she took office, the Office of Congressional Ethics has been very serious about fulfilling her mission and  their responsibilities.

Lots of scary talk going around about plagues, earthquakes, and environmental disasters. Which do you think is the most imminent, and what do you plan to do about it? 

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I'm on the board of a homeowner association for a condominium complex. So is Mr. X. The association has a policy which holds individual homeowners responsible for certain plumbing repairs. On several occasions, homeowners have asked the association to pay for such repairs, but we have always refused these requests and stood by our policy, forcing the homeowners to pay.

What are the pros and cons of open-source journalism? When citizens create their own news, objective reportage can suffer. On the other hand, citizens may turn out to be more reliable and provide more points of view than regular media. What do you think?

When your boss asks you to do something that goes against your own ethics, what do you do? What are the risks if you say yes? Or no?