I've always been taught that if you want to understand the truth about an issue the first thing you should do is follow the money. Some might say this is cynical, even counter-sociological, and I would not suggest that a sociologist should follow the money and stay there. It is, however, a very telling enterprise.... Continue Reading →
This will be a very short blog because...well...really, there's nothing that can be said. The issue speaks for itself. AIG! That's it. Not only has this company been instrumental in destroying the economy of the most powerful market in the world, thus crippling the world economy, they claimed to be too big to fail so... Continue Reading →
I just finished reading Tom Brokaw's book Boom!. It was a good read and an interesting approach to the topic of the sixties, though frankly, I think Brokaw's journalistic style leaves out some of the robustness and dynamism of the generation. But this is not a critique of the book. If you are a student... Continue Reading →
It's really impossible to know just exactly how much money the government has dished out to failing economic institutions to keep them afloat. Many critics from both sides of the political debate bristle at this, but we are told that these institutions are just too big to fail. They must be kept afloat with an... Continue Reading →
Last week the White House released seven memos heretofore kept secret by the Bush Administration. What do these memos reveal? Well, they reveal that things really were as bad as they seemed. It's like the paranoid learning that everyone really is out to get him. There's a satisfied sense of "see, I told you," followed... Continue Reading →
The Supreme Court decision on Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum offered an interesting way to sidestep the whole separation of church and state "thing." It's not the first time the high court was wrong, of course, and every time it's wrong there are social consequences. We'll see just how intense the consequences are in... Continue Reading →
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