Opinion. My Two Cents Worth on the World-Wide Anti-Fossil-Fuel Project.
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Critique, Invention, Global Warming | No Comments »In transportation any saving on the weight to be moved can be converted through a saving in power to a saving in amount of fossil fuel used. Bring the weight down enough and you can drop the fossil fuel and ...
The People and Global Warming
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Invention, Global Warming | 2 Comments »Unanticipated consequences (the wild joker of functionalism in sociology) emerged after decades of happy service for both tobacco and fossil fuels. These goods were revealed finally as stark threats to the well being of our species. Their use ...
Chump Change
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Invention, Mass Movements | No Comments »"Some work must be done," said the King, "but who is to do it?" "Everyone," said the Queen. "The Royals as well?" asked Alice. "Only if they are paid double," answered the Queen, "and get everyday off." "And you?" persisted Alice. "You have gone beyond ...
The Global Hots. A Speculation
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Global Warming, Mass Movements | No Comments »The ultimate threat is that we all die in short order and our species follows the dinosaurs into unlamented oblivion. The negative vectors come from every and all directions--microbial, chemical, the physical environment, explosive militant ideologies, ...
Sociology Textbook
Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Book | No Comments »Sixty some posts so far. Sum them up as a sociology textbook reader, short essays, mostly on concepts and their associated methods. If they have any use beyond my pleasure in their composition it would be as didactic devices--starts ...
Holes in the Social Order
Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Invention | No Comments »The High Line in Manhattan, New York, an abandoned west side elevated railroad track stopped its active transportation role around 1980. Neither the city government or the railroads paid it much attention after. Taxes were paid, obstructions set in place ...
The Sociology of Escape
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Escape | No Comments »On December 17, 1975 at 2.06 PM in Mexico City, Dwight Worker, an American from Indiana in his mid-twenties then, dressed as a woman and, for the moment accepting the persona of this gender, steps through one of the out-going ...
Walking the High Line in New York City.
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in Alternate Worlds, High Line | No Comments »The reconstruction of the High Line (an abandoned elevated railroad right of way on the west side of Manhattan, New York) has begun. It, or at least part of it, will become a thin lineal park. It will be ...
The Juggler: A Demonstration in Central Park, New York City
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Juggler, Sports | No Comments »Up in Central Park many years back, a number of varied acts on display in honor of something or other. I do not remember the details, only one act, a juggler, a man in his thirties, accompanied by two ...