{"id":1137,"date":"2008-09-26T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2008-09-26T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:41:05","slug":"friday-debate-or-maybe-not-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/09\/26\/friday-debate-or-maybe-not-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Debate <strike>(or maybe not)<\/strike> Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/lipsticpig.jpg\" alt=\"Lipstick on a Pig\" width=\"175\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"5\" height=\"209\" align=\"left\" \/>   So, I&#8217;m reading my September issue of Information Security Magazine the other day (what, you don&#8217;t get that?), and was shocked to find an article by David Mortman entitled, &#8220;Prettied Up Problem,&#8221; accompanied by this picture.  It was <strong><em>supposedly<\/em><\/strong> about the fact that so-called professional organizations&#8217; efforts to address their ethics problems by creating ethics requirements in their certifications weren&#8217;t really addressing any issues, and in fact were just dressing up an &#8220;ugly situation.&#8221;  Mortman even had the audacity to include the line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Really what we have is lipstick on a pig.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, I was outraged &#8211; outraged, I tell you &#8211;  and immediately fired off a stern e-mail demanding an apology, and telling them just how gosh darn appalled I was at both Mortman and the magazine for engaging in this vicious and cruel attack on our Alaskan goddess (no offense to actual goddesses &#8211; or would that be goddi? &#8211; implied), Sarah Palin.  Talk about shameful and ignominious.  If I get a reply back from them, I&#8217;ll let you know.<\/p>\n<p>My father-in-law, by the way, says McCain is &#8220;his guy,&#8221; and he likes Caribou Barbie because she&#8217;s &#8220;cute&#8221; and &#8220;really speaks her mind and tells the truth.&#8221;  Oy.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Now that it appears the debate is on, <a href=\"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/mschat3\/\">the MS Chat Room will be open for Election 2008: Gramp v. Champ, debate #1<\/a>.  Be there, or be square. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m reading my September issue of Information Security Magazine the other day (what, you don&#8217;t get that?), and was shocked to find an article by David Mortman entitled, &#8220;Prettied Up Problem,&#8221; accompanied by this picture. It was supposedly about the fact that so-called professional organizations&#8217; efforts to address their ethics problems by creating ethics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}