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Questions Without Answers or There’s More to Angst Than Meets The Eye
In my morning class, I finished off a series of lectures on the foundation of sociology that focused on the key concepts of Marx, Weber and Durkheim: alienation, the iron cage and anomie respectively. After class, a student approached me with a deceptively simple question for which I had no answer. She explained to me [...]
Posted: January 27th, 2010 under Geek Stuff.
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Don’t Be Evil
I was not alone in condemning Google in 2006 for agreeing to censor search results in order to gain access to that long-time fetish of corporate America: the Chinese market. For a supposedly new kind of corporation bandying about the slogan “don’t be evil“, the agreement to censor search results cut to the core of [...]
Posted: January 13th, 2010 under Geek Stuff, International News, Technology.
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Sunday Linkage
First up, Pirate Hominids!
Low Down on the Jobs Report
Neanderthal Body Paint?
Labor Push-back on Health Care Reform
Six Questions on Yemen
Anthropology at War
China is not a super-power
Watching Timmy Cry…
Posted: January 10th, 2010 under Geek Stuff.
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Theory of the Leisure Class
From Angry Bear
Starting with the $200-500K category, the share of earnings from labor begins a marked decline. By the time you hit mid-six figures, average earnings from income, dividends, and capital gains become high enough to provide middle-class or better incomes without (necessarily) working. Tax returns in the upper-six-figure bucket, on average, show more income [...]
Posted: January 6th, 2010 under Geek Stuff, The Dismal Science.
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The Specter of the Political
First time tragedy; second time farce. From the BBC’s the Power of Nightmares:
Posted: January 3rd, 2010 under Geek Stuff, Politics, Public Intellectuals.
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Trajectories
A sociology professor of mine once said: ‘Societies are either progressing or are in decline. There is no stasis.’ His point was that the time-consciousness of Western modernity is defined by dynamic transformation in which each moment in time is, in effect, a present-history. Being all reflective on this New Years day, this educative moment [...]
Posted: January 1st, 2010 under Geek Stuff.
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Shock Doctrine
It would appear as though Obama’s channeling of Uncle Milty’s now infamous Shock Doctrine is coming to fruition. State budgets may be collapsing nation-wide, but Tennessee’s budget forecasts are simply terrible. With Arne Duncan dangling billions in front of state legislatures, the Obama administration is wrestling concessions from states like Tennessee over charter schools and [...]
Posted: December 28th, 2009 under Education Policy, Geek Stuff, Politics, Public Intellectuals, Schools.
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Holiday Greetings
Even through the fog of a X-mas cold, Stick finds in his bountiful heart a need to share with you all a happy holidays! See you next week…
Posted: December 21st, 2009 under Geek Stuff.
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Pa-Pa-Pa-Poker Face
Posted: December 12th, 2009 under Geek Stuff.
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World’s Smallest Snowman
Posted: December 5th, 2009 under Geek Stuff.
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