The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • Health Care is a Right!

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  • Say it ain't so, Joe Lieberman!

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/33524742#33524742 Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Are you, like Rachel Maddow, wondering what is motivating Joe Lieberaman’s threats to support a filibuster against the public option? The ongoing mission of the Journal of a Mad Sociologist to follow the money unearthed these little tidbits from opensecrets.org $427,000 collected Read more

  • Droning on and on about why Pakistan doesn’t like us!

    Why are we so shocked when people whom we are bombing…don’t like us? Secretary of State Clinton, this week, found it difficult to convince the people of Pakistan that sending our killer flying robots into their neighborhoods was being done for their own good. During Vietnam we destroyed villages to save them.  In the eighties Read more

  • Droning on and on about why Pakistan doesn't like us!

    Why are we so shocked when people whom we are bombing…don’t like us? Secretary of State Clinton, this week, found it difficult to convince the people of Pakistan that sending our killer flying robots into their neighborhoods was being done for their own good. During Vietnam we destroyed villages to save them.  In the eighties Read more

  • Testing Ourselves into Lower Proficiency

    Our school system needs to be reformed. I believe that and have been an advocate of reform since the beginning of my career.  Unfortunately, some time ago, the claim to reform was co-opted by those pushing “higher standards” and “standardized testing” as the means to that end. And it hasn’t worked. And it can’t work. Read more

  • Alternative Fuels! It’s not just for envirofascist-neopagans anymore!

    For the last couple of years I’ve come to realize that the debate about global warming has become so polar that it might be time for environmentalists to change track.  As a paradigm shifting discourse, global warming has gone as far as it can.  Those who accept the mountains of data verifying the reality of Read more

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