The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • Clean Coal, Framing and an Omnicosmic Perspective

    Clean Coal, Framing and an Omnicosmic Perspective

    A couple of years back here in Southwest Florida there was a proposal to build a coal power plant in Hendry County to help satisfy the growing need for electricity.  Not to worry, we were told, this was a “clean coal” power plant using the most recent technological advances to filter all of the bad Read more

  • Crime Pays when the Police Let it Pay

    Okay!  Let’s say that the news reported a new kind of crime.  Let’s call it…oh, I don’t know…Yellow Sleeve Crime (YSC). According to the report, research by the FBI estimates the costs of this new crime to the American public at between $300 and $600 billion dollars.  This is between 2 and 3 times the Read more

  • Congress Got a Raise. Did you?

    It must be nice to be a congressman.  Imagine this.  Every year you get a raise unless, get this, unless you and your fellow employees vote to not get the raise! Great work if you can get it. Well, this year congress opted to…well…not vote against the raise!  This, of course, saves some congressman from Read more

  • A Real Foreclosure

    http://www.americannewsproject.com/player.swf Read more

  • Joe the Plumber and Self Promotion

    Joe the Notaplumber with John McCain: Doesn’t Joe look appalled? Read more

  • Illinois Politics: Can Corruption be more Blatant

    Blagojevich Read more

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