Ethics

Balko on Kellogg's Dropping Phelps

By Ed Brayton

Kellogg's has dropped Michael Phelps because - gasp! - he smoked pot. They say his behavior is "not consistent with the image of Kellogg." Balko points out the absurdity of such concerns coming from a company named after a man who advocated pouring acid on a woman's clitoris to keep her from being too sexual.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).