The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • I'd Like to Thank

    Well, I am now, officially, a victim of the economy.  This week I learned that the school where I was working, a school that focused on helping students with difficulties in other schools, or students will learning disabilities, was closing down.  It’s a private school run for profit and has not been able to generate… Read more

  • Following the Money and the Military Budget

    Those who are familiar with this blog know that my knew on-line playground is opensecrets.org.  So after my blog yesterday regarding slashing the military budget I thought I would take my own advice for an explanation and follow the money.  Below are the top five military defense contractors.  The graphs show how much the they… Read more

  • Why Not Slash the So Called Defense Budget?

    Because we have to defend ourselves?  How can we possibly defend ourselves if we cut our defense budget? You liberal wacko! Gee, I don’t know. How do countries like Switzerland or Finland defend themselves with military expenditures about 1/100th and 1/200th that of the United States? Oh, yeah! They don’t mess with other countries.  So… Read more

  • Maddow's Latest Friday Night Dump Dig (relating to the last blog)

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/30199691#30199691 Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Read more

  • The Multiplying Effect of Power

    Frederick Douglass, in his West India Emancipation Speech of 1856, famously stated that “power concedes nothing without demand.  It never did and it never will…” It’s not hard to understand why a former slave and tireless human rights advocate would have an acute sensibility to the nature of power. He was, of course, correct. Without… Read more

  • Agitate: Volume 2 Number 9: A Corporate Command Economy

                    That I’m writing this blog right now has me mystified.  I would have thought that the phrase, free market economy would be nothing more than a vulgar epithet today.  After all, what has the so called free market created?  A generation of stagnant wages, reduced benefits, deteriorated infrastructure and an agglomeration of wealth into… Read more

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