The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • 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

  • What Do President Obama and Mahatma Gandhi NOT Have In Common?

    Answer: Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prise. Yes, it’s true. One of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance in the history of man never received the Nobel Peace Prize.  What’s funny is that I’d always assumed he had.  I was shocked to discover this omission when I was researching the Nobel Prize after hearing… Read more

  • ACORN and the Politics of Perfection

    The situation with ACORN has really got me thinking.  Okay, I’ll have to admit that I think there should be some penalty for the group which, at the very least, was caught doing something stupid in re, offering tax advice to a pimp.  What has me intrigued, however, is the amount of effort and energy… Read more

  • Can't Understand Why People Think Race is an Issue!

    Interesting that this is stamped over a picture of the Lincoln Monument! Editor of The Progressive, Matthew Rothschild, quoted this letter he received, “America is in deep, deep trouble. The country lost its mind last November and went and elected a Third World chimp as President.  So who can be surprised now that Barack Hussen… Read more

  • The Politics of Political Surveys

    Just when I was wondering what to blog about (I, in fact, have another blog in the making).  Yesterday I received an invitation from Representative Connie Mack to attend his Health Care Forum in Fort Myers. Included with the invitation is a Health Care Reform Survey.  Well, I’m a sociologist.  Surveys are the staples of… Read more

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