The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • OK! He's the President Now: Get off the bandwagon and start tightening the thumbscrews.

    It’s OK to support a candidate, but once that candidate achieves office it’s time to be skeptical, critical and demanding. There have been forty four Presidents in this nation’s history (I know, I’m not including the seven presidents under the Articles of Confederation), and significantly fewer good or even great presidents. History being the example,… Read more

  • Agitate: December 2008: Capitalism is no Cure

    v:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} b:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}   Neoliberalism is a scam.  Our adherence to free market principles as presented by the political elite since the so called Reagan Revolution was that of blind faith.  We really wanted it to be morning in America.  We really wanted simple solutions to the problems that otherwise… Read more

  • Olbermann on Bush: Yeah, what he said.

    I wanted to do a summary of the Bush Administration, but I found that Olbermann beat me to the punch. That’s all right, I have other things to work on anyway. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/28699663#28699663 .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999… Read more

  • Manicheanism and Sociology: The Concept of Evil and Foreign Policy

    If sociology has a role as a discipline it is to dig beyond the rhetoric of power and clarify the social facts that inform our lives.  As such, there is no room for sociology to remain objective, any more than a physician should remain objective. As the physician should be biased toward curing disease and… Read more

  • A World of Owls and Humans

    A World of Owls and Humans

    A Habitat for Humanity House stands empty. Read more

  • John Wayne, a Fluffy White Dog and Life's last Dignity

    In 1976 John Wayne starred in his final movie, The Shootist.  Wayne played John B. Books, an aging and dying gunslinger at the turn of the century.  Wayne was diagnosed with “a cancer” (symptomatic of prostate cancer) and informed that he was going to die…slowly and painfully.  The doctor, played brilliantly by Jimmy Stuart, informed… Read more

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