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How Can We Achieve Single Payer?
WHAT BERNIE SHOULD HAVE SAID So presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced his health care plan last week with significant response. Those like myself, who have been advocating for a single payer plan, rejoiced. We finally have an candidate who is speeking our language. More practical liberals, on the other hand, had characteristically well thought out… Read more
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The Sociology of R2D2
ON THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE, SLAVERY AND R2D2 THE MASTERMIND! All right, so it’s the end of the quarter, and thus a difficult time for me to post regularly. I’ve had some serious commentary on the blog lately, and have a few more serious pieces in draft form, almost ready to go. It’s just been… Read more
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Are You a Real Man?
WHATEVER THAT MEANS How we talk about manhood and masculinity, its discursive formations, shapes how we think about ourselves as men and our relationships with those we love. It’s time for real men to look beyond how masculinity is shaped. Below is a video on 48 Things Men Hear in a Lifetime that are Bad… Read more
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2015 A Breakthrough Year for the Earth?
AT THE VERY LEAST AN EYE OPENER? Maybe we can, at the very least, start talking about Global Climate Change. Let’s face it, 2015 went out almost as if the Earth were screaming at us to take her into consideration when making our New Years’ Resolutions. Here in South Florida, we spent Christmas sweating through… Read more
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The First Amendment vs. Clear and Present Dangers
JUSTICE HOLMES’ BIG LIE! During World War I, Charles Schenck, a socialist, was arrested for distributing anti-war pamphlets in front of an Army recruitment station. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court in the famous/infamous Schenck v. United States. Writing for the majority, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declared Constitutional protections of free speech… Read more
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A Happy? Winter Solstice
LESSONS ON FACING THE DARKNESS TOGETHER There’s something special about this time of the year, the coming of the Winter Solstice. Almost all Northern Hemisphere cultures in the world recognize the symbolic import of the longest night of the year, few, however as dramatically as the traditional European cultures who saw this time as a… Read more
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