Saturday, August 31, 2013

Sarin Gas, Syria, Belief, American Exceptionalism and Morality

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Americans who died to free others Jews who died when nobody cared How do we know what happened? Mad Dog has followed the put...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Success in the Age of Superficialty: Colbert, Andrew Hacker, Stephen Colbert

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Professor Andrew Hacker "Why is the crushing debt [from Princeton] any better than the crushing debt from the on line colleges?...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Leaning Forward, Rooted in the Past

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As we get older, we become acutely sensitive to sounding like the old gomers we remember from our own youth, men and women who complain...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Unprofessional Behavior: What it Means To Be A Professional

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One college course Mad Dog remembers  was taught in the department of Sociology called, "The Professions" and the professor, a...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

Falling Out of Love with President Obama

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"I had such hopes for us."                --Jimmy McNulty to Stringer Bell. "They always disappoint you."  ...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Of Raisins and Gaming: The Free Market and Other Fantasies

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We are often told by the Rush Limbaughs, the Eric Cantors and the Rand Pauls of the world that we have a free market economy and the on...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Judge Shira Scheindlin: Stop and Frisk

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Which Kids Will Be Stopped and Frisked? Judge Scheindlin As expected (see Mad Dog's May 28th post) , Judge Shira Scheind...
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