The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • On Post-War Buyer’s Remorse

    Or…The Vietnam Iraq Syndrome   I have to admit, I’m feeling pretty satisfied watching President Obama twisting himself into myriad contortions to justify US military intervention in Syria. I’m satisfied because I see this as one further step in a paradigm shift in which Americans reject the legitimacy of war and militarism altogether. The long… Read more

  • Your Home Town

    And its racial composition   I am a map geek! So I was beside myself with joy when I happened upon this fantastic website produced by Dustin Cable at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. It is an awesome tool. Every person in America is represented by a dot, color coded… Read more

  • iAm! I said.

    iExperience is lacking in — Touch First, I think it’s great that open mic poetry still exists. This recital is especially poignant. I can’t wait for the day when our technology advances to the point where it can make us human again. Read more

  • The NRA’s Missed Opportunity

    To Promote Gun Usage Among Blacks   Whenever a tragedy involving guns makes the news, the NRA is the first group to step up and lament “if only the victim[s] were armed the tragedy would never have happened.” Strangely, that paradigm was missing in the highly publicized Trayvon Martin shooting. Perhaps this was just bad… Read more

  • Trayvon’s Right to Stand his Ground

    there’s a key question that I really wish someone would ask with regard to the Trayvon Martin trial.did Trayvon Martin have a right to stand his ground?this isn’t just a key question fis probablyr the case, but also a clear weakness in the concept of a Stand Your Ground laws. few conflicts are so simple… Read more

  • Snowden Ate My Homework

    The US Should Stop Blaming Snowden for its Own Inequities As a teacher I hear all kinds of excuses for failure. A student, with typical adolescent melodrama, bemoans how difficult my tests are and how I’m ruining his grade. You see, I’m the reason that he is failing. It’s not the fact that, instead of… Read more

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