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John Wayne, a Fluffy White Dog and Life’s last Dignity
AN ADDENDUM TO THE FLUFFY WHITE DOG The post, Fluffy White Dog Sociology was and remains the most popular post in Mad Sociologist history. While I was writing that post, however, there was a second narrative playing in my mind. That narrative became this post. I’m not sure if John Wayne remains popular, or if Read more
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Fluffy White Dog Sociology
Religion, Sociology and the Lived Experience Back in 2009, for the first time in my life, I had the aweful experience of having to put a dog to sleep. Her name was Nilla. She was my dog through marriage. I never thought I would have a fluffy white dog, let alone a little dog as Read more
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Scalia’s Legacy was Awful
BY ANY STANDARDS OF ENLIGHTENED CIVILIZATION First, I want to be clear that this post is not an ad hominem attack against the deceased. Those looking for a good, ol’ fashioned character assassination or a raunchy, left-wing celebration of the death of an arch-conservative will be disappointed. No death should be celebrated. Justice Scalia was, first Read more
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Sociology is Hard
ON A NONLINEAR SCIENCE When I’m introducing my discipline to college students I often quip that if sociology were easy, physicists would do it. After all, physics is guided by natural laws that do not deviate, for which there are no exceptions. A particle, being accelerated around a huge magnetic ring until collided with another Read more
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A Progressive vs. a Socialist?
UM…NOT REALLY All right, so I wanted to elaborate on another bit of information that can be discerned from the Political Compass graphic shown in my last post. This time, however, it has to do with the Democratic nominees. As mentioned in the last post, the Political Compass, which according to the website looks at Read more
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