There’s a lot to be angry about these days. ➢ My retirement fund is gone because of the greed of others. ➢ I lost my job while my boss gets a bonus. ➢ I’ve saved all my life, lived within my means and yet the irresponsible guy in default gets bailed out! Angry yet? In the blogosphere l...

On Thanksgivings Present and Past and What We Are Thankful For Now: by Shawn McElhinney of Rerum Novarum (Photo: American Soldiers are Seen at Prayer During a Catholic Mass on Thanksgiving Day) Happy Thanksgiving from the Mamas: With a beautiful Thanksgiving prayer offered in a melancholy time. And ...

This quote from Eve Tushnet, found on TSO's Spanning the Globe, gave me a laugh: Just remember, we're the party that believes in the necessity and meaning of suffering--and especially humiliation. So really, we win again! Offer this $#@! up, y'all. Eve Tushnet, listing a positive of the Obama win Th...

The two talks I gave at the: International Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences, this summer, are now available at videolectures.net. Not the best talks of my career, and hopefully not the last either. But the guys at VL did a great job in recording them. One of the talk was abo...

Darren Rowse has just invented the Blogger Appreciation Day. Today it’s all about saying “Thank you” to your favourite blogger(s). It could be a peptalk, a “Thank You”-mail or a few words of encouragement. I would like to thank the following people in no particular orde...