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I'm Walking on Sunshine

Some days are better than others. Yesterday, I read a post by Geitner Simmons (Cosmic injustice: we in St. Louis have Christine Bertelson, and Omaha has Geitner Simmons) about CBS pulling the hatchet from the back of a still alive yet not with us Ronald Reagan that linked to an Alan Henderson post on the same subject that linked to an article by Steven Cox about moral choice and risk assessment. The article is great, and you should go read it.

Alan Henderson linked to it because it points out how some myths from the sinking of the Titanic are included in every movie ever made about it. I think it does an even better job about talking about moral choice and risk assessment. I think we need to celebrate people who do the right thing more than we do because its hard to do. All too often, we like to talk about how good we would have been -- a cheap and easy pasttime -- rather than do anything about what confronts us in the here and now. I'd like to think I'd always do the right thing in a difficult circumstance, but I'm fully aware I can't know for sure until I'm confronted with the choice.

The reason for my title is that Gietner updated the post to include my comment about reading the Cox article, and then I noticed he blogrolled me. Wow! OK, I'm sandwiched by Max Sawicky and Leonard Pitts, but still that's an ego boost.