Okay, We are in post #4, chapter #3 of Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference. It seems the authors like using "metaphors of communication ethics praxis" although I am not sure if they really understand what a metaphor means. This chapter they decided to use SIX metaphors: Democratic communication ethics Universal-humanitarian ethics Codes, procedures, and … Continue reading Approaches to Communication Ethics: The Pragmatic Good of Theory
Defining Communication Ethics
The operative word for defining communication ethics appears to be "ought". This chapter shows positions that "promote and protect a good that one "ought" to practice within a particular communication ethic. This chapter has studies four metaphors of communication ethics praxis: Multiplicity of Communication Ethics Philosophy of Communication Applied Communication Narrative For point one, while … Continue reading Defining Communication Ethics
The Pragmatic Necessity of Communication Ethics
Chapter One, after the long, detailed preface, opens with what I shall call a thesis statement: We begin with a simple assumption: We cannot assume that any given person— not even a neighbor— protects and promotes the same goods as we do. The clashing of goods or views of what should be “ethical” defines our … Continue reading The Pragmatic Necessity of Communication Ethics
Communication Ethics: a lengthy, belabored prologue
You know the book is going to be labored when it has four headlined sections in the preface. You could never get away with that in a fiction book (well, perhaps I shouldn't say that, but it would have to support something really special), but in my most recent text book that is exactly what … Continue reading Communication Ethics: a lengthy, belabored prologue
The Story of Creation: like you’ve never seen before
This is presumably aimed at kids, but it has some really important reminders for adults too. I like the part about why we call God "He", for example.
Starlight’s Mary Poppins: Magic and Puppetry
(Note: Potential spoilers ahead in this theater review.) We attended the Thursday evening showing of Disney's "Mary Poppins: The Broadway Musical" as put on by Kansas City's Starlight Theatre. It was a show well worth seeing -- so like, and yet so unlike the Disney movie of the same name. You will recognize many familiar … Continue reading Starlight’s Mary Poppins: Magic and Puppetry
The Cure to California’s Water Woes: “Star Wars”
The water situation in California is getting perennially severe. I have read several different stories and commentaries about possible solutions, and how popular or practical they are. The most obvious solution is also the least politically possible. The state is along the shores of a limitless supply of ocean water. Yet the potential costs, in … Continue reading The Cure to California’s Water Woes: “Star Wars”
Re writing (wrestling) history
The purveyors of a sanitized past, in their attempt to ensure the entire past be seen only through the lens of the current age's political correctness, have decreed that anyone who oversteps the bounds of their correctness be erased from history. Such it seems is the reaction of the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) in the … Continue reading Re writing (wrestling) history
A Blast of the Past #16: Christmas in Missouri. circa 1997
The above picture is probably the iconic family picture from Christmas 1997. Here Carly isn't quite a year, and sits so sweetly with the M&M candy cane held in her hands. That was a year where we had a live tree, as you can see above. The big wrapped packages were the parts of the … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #16: Christmas in Missouri. circa 1997
Case Closed (practically — the technical term is “suspended”)
Just under a month ago I wrote a post about my experience in being run off the road while riding my bicycle. In that time I have heard nothing about what the police have done to investigate, and whether or not they located the perpetrators, or simply closed the case. The officer who took my … Continue reading Case Closed (practically — the technical term is “suspended”)
