Outrages and Musings
Morton Winston
- Location
- Ewing, New Jersey, USA
- Birthday
- January 16
- Title
- Professor of Philosophy
- Company
- The College of New Jersey
- Bio
- A long time human rights scholar, educator, and activist, I served as chairman of the board of directors of Amnesty International USA. I have received three Fulbright Scholarships, to South Africa (1992), to Thailand (1999) and in 2007 I was named the Danish Distinguished Chair of Human Rights and International Relations at the Danish Institute of Human Rights in Copenhagen, Denmark.
My email is: MEWinston@gmail.com.
MY RECENT POSTS
- The Symbolism of the Titanic
Disaster
April 15, 2012 10:41AM - Scott Roeder and the Bush
Doctrine
January 29, 2010 08:18AM - New Rules
December 30, 2009 08:46AM - Right-wing Ragers and Other
Holiday Cheer
December 28, 2009 11:19AM - Pascal's Wager and Climate
Change
December 24, 2009 12:14PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “The politics of the deal
is terrible for the Democrats.
See
Paul Krugman's
analys…”
December 10, 2010 03:04PM - “The politics of the deal
is terrible for the Democrats.
See
Paul Krugman's
analys…”
December 10, 2010 03:04PM - “Evokes the sea and loss
in a matter of fact
way.”
December 24, 2009 04:47PM - “Dear Al,
I
don't think you know me. Do
you?”
December 17, 2009 03:16PM - “I expected that the
story line would develop into
a
confrontation between Mary
An…”
August 18, 2009 09:55AM
Morton Winston's Links
The Symbolism of the Titanic Disaster
On April 15, 1912 the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, drowning 1517 passengers. On this centenary of the disaster there are memorials taking place in Belfast where the supposedly “unsinkable” steamship was built, in Southham… Read full post »
Scott Roeder and the Bush Doctrine
Scott Roeder's justification for killing Dr. George Tiller is the same as the one that George W. Bush used to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
In law, in order for a defense of necessity (voluntary manslaughter) to apply, there must be an imminent lethal threat to oneself or… Read full post »
New Rules
Right-wing Ragers and Other Holiday Cheer
On Christmas Eve a woman named Bunny from Kansas called C-Span to say that she was so disappointed and mad over the Senate passing the health insurance reform bill that she had taken down her Christmas tree. When asked about her reasons she explained that the America
… Read full post »Pascal's Wager and Climate Change
Current climate science suggests that the Earth's temperature has been steadily rising due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by our use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas, and that the rate at which are pumping CO2 and other gases into the atmosphere exceeds… Read full post »
While it is not over until it is over, on this the penultimate day
of the most important international conference on global climate
change in this decade, it seems pretty clear that it is going to
end in failure. There will be no binding treaty. It is not clear
there will… Read full post »
What Ever Happened to Moral Hazard?
The term "moral hazard" has a long history, but it was brought into prominence by economist Kenneth Arrow to describe situations in which governments step in to rescue private financial institutions from the consequences of their own risky or imprudent behavior. The term itself has an interesting ety
…
Death Squads, American Style
The term 'death squad' entered the lexicon back in the 1980s when it was used to refer to gangs of off-duty military personnel who were hired by right-wing military dictatorships in countries such as Guatemala and El Salvador to kidnap and murder people they suspected of sympathizing with the… Read full post »
Big Lies
If different months of the year reflect different personality
types, then August must be the month for idiots and liars. All of
the reasonable and responsible people are away on vacation so the
field of play is left to the nutcases. This is particularly evident
this August in the so-called debate… Read full post »
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
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