The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • Some important videos on body image:

    Our kids need to know that even the most beautiful of celebrities don’t look like their pictures in the magazines or on the screen. The reason they believe they can never be as beautiful as their most admired celebrities is that no one, even the celebrities themselves, can look that good in real life. For… Read more

  • A time saver for defending the Obama Administration from idiocy

    I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m spending way too much time defending President Obama and his Administration from just plain idiotic assertions. On online debates…some with family members…I’m rehashing arguments that, quite frankly, I shouldn’t have to make. What’s really getting to me on this is that it is keeping me from making very… Read more

  • 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

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