The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • You don’t know how much you love them until you need them!

    Rick Scott says nice things about public sector workers…still screws them   My wife and I were watching the Weather Channel today, keeping track of Tropical Storm Debby. Rick Scott was being interviewed and I was surprised to hear him mention the great job that Florida’s state and local emergency response personnel were doing. Wow! Read more

  • Remembering Alan Turing

    All of Him! Google was right to pay homage to Alan Turing on the hundredth anniversary of his birth with a “Doodle” of the famous Turing Machine. Indeed, without Turing, it is likely that Google would not exist, at least in its current manifestation. The life and work of Alan Turing made the icons of Read more

  • The Private Sector is Doing Fine?

    Depends on what you mean by “Private Sector”   President Obama took a lot of flack for suggesting that the “private sector is doing fine.” The right wing jumped on him for this gaffe. How could he be so out of touch with reality? Obviously, the private sector is not doing fine. Well, it’s not Read more

  • In Support of Michigan State Representative Lisa Brown

    A couple of days ago, Michigan State Representative Lisa Brown had the audacity to use the “V” word during a debate on a topic involving…uh…”V’s”! She wasn’t being politically correct, she was being anatomically correct! As it stands, the vagina is the only human body part that so-called small government conservatives demand to regulate. In Read more

  • Don’t Forget About Plutonomy

    A reminder of what we are up against   I was doing research for a project that I’m working on and I stumbled upon this bit of literature. I haven’t thought of it in years, despite its being posted on the Journal of a Mad Sociologist Readings page. It’s a summary of the outcomes of Read more

  • On Supporting the Troops While Opposing War

    A Complex Position   I was caught in a difficult paradox for many years. This paradox was, I believe, an intentional and ingenious discursive formation concocted during the first Persian Gulf War. It was the paradox of supporting our troops while opposing war. Exactly how could I, as a peace advocate and activist, claim that Read more

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