ETHICS TRAINING:  Tomorrow I have to take my annual ethics training at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.  At the Commission, “ethics” means you mustn’t buy or sell stock without reporting it.  It’s a very limited view of the subject.  Where I come from it would be considered unethical to issue a report that frightens African American mothers into believing that doctors and nurses are a bunch of racists, thereby discouraging them from seeking proper medical care early in their pregnancy.  But what do I know?

By the way, the Commission has a new report on bail reform that it has been sitting on for more than a month now.  I’m told it will finally come out in January.