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Taking My Money at Gun Point
A thought on poverty from our discussion in Social Problems last week Note: The following post was originally published at The Living Text Blog, my college sociology forum. I thought it would go well here at the Mad Sociologist. I wanted to comment on something that came up in our discussion on poverty last Read more
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The Next Time They Tell You That Raising the Minimum Wage Costs Jobs
Show them this graph! We are being lied to by the right wing when they say, as conservative leaders like Ron Paul insists, that raising the minimum wage costs jobs. The above graph shows all of the times that the minimum wage was at least partially raised,according to the Department of Labor, corresponding to the Read more
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Lessons on the Meaning(lessness) of War
Soldiers are imbued with war’s transcendent purpose, and despair when it is all for naught In the 1960’s young American men were, once again, called to duty to protect their country from tyranny. In this case, the imminent threat was an innocuous rural nation called Vietnam. Many Americans had never heard of this place, Read more
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The Last Hours of Humanity?
Could we be Looking at the End of Civilization? We always thought the end of the world would come from fire, of flood, or interstellar rocks. It could be that the end of the world comes from profit motive. Click Here to go to the Last Hours website. Read more
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Progressive Liberals—It’s Time to Stop Defending the Affordable Care Act
And start advocating for what we’ve wanted from the beginning—Single-Payer In 2009, I started a small group called Fight for Healthcare (now defunct). The purpose of this group was to advocate for what I and many others believed was candidate Obama’s promise to enact a public health care option. As far as we were Read more
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