The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • Immigration, Crime and Hypocrisy in Arizona

    Just in case there are folks out there who still believe that Arizona’s now infamous “paper’s please” law is a rational response to the influence of illegal immigrants on the state’s crime rates, here’s a report by the Immigration Policy Center. It demonstrates that, contrary to popular opinion, the crime rates in Arizona have been Read more

  • Is it a conspiracy?

    If I was one to find conspiracies I would think that contemporary political discourse was a well staged ruse coordinated by the Democrats and the Republicans. Here’s how I might imagine this conspiracy would have taken place in 2008… Imagine, if you will, a windowless room bathed in subdued light. In the center of the Read more

  • Extremism and Violence: On Letting the Lunatic Fringe Own the Paradigm

    What has happened to the political discourse? This has been a concern of mine since the victory of Barack Obama and the disenfranchisement of modern conservatism. Yes, the political spectrum has swung from the Reagan conservatism of the last generation to, perhaps, a centrist liberalism represented by the Obama administration. Indeed, this is a paradigm Read more

  • Call Girl Barbie!

    NOTE: The picture below is not the original. Somehow, many of my images on this site were corrupted (one of the reasons a switched to the new site and format). The original was a Barbie in a very low cut evening gown. Fortunately, I didn’t have to look far to reproduce a suitable image. I Read more

  • What does it take to eradicate an idea?

    Ideas, once created, do not die easily. About twenty-five hundred years ago the ancient Greeks proved that the Earth was a sphere. Eratosthenes even calculated the circumference of this sphere. Since then the Earth has been circumnavigated countless times and been photographed from orbit and from the moon. It is clear beyond any doubt that Read more

  • Whom does Beck want to eradicate?

    A few days ago I posted a blog concerned about the direction of contemporary conservatism. I stand by everything I said in that blog (which will soon be updated as an Agitate article). Some were upset with my assessment of conservatism as leading us into bad times reminiscent of the McCarthy era and the Palmer Read more

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