Musing on the Hedge
Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in Anti-Experiment, Gambling, Money | No Comments »In the 1930s Philadelphia an informal gambling market developed at professional baseball games. Around 400 mature men would gather in the left field bleachers of the old Shibe Park and bet with each other over the outcome of the ...
When One Gender Dominates Another
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Analysis, Asymmetrical Relationship, Anti-Experiment, Murder, Gender | No Comments »On one side the established law and the generally accepted conventional way. On the other snippets of action sequences like the OJ Murder Case that project other patterns. If we make the leap from case to category, place ...
Orange Juice. A Sociologist Approaches a Concrete Case of Murder
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Concrete incident or process, Anti-Experiment, Family Forms, Murder | No Comments »Like most cases of crime and deviance the OJ murder case appears on its face to be irrational. The shocking element: what seems to be a sane and ordinary person is acting against common sense. Why would a mature, ...
On the Edge of a High Place.
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Cadre, Alternate Worlds, Prostitution, Concrete incident or process, Anti-Experiment | No Comments »In the movie "A Man for All Seasons" an historical event is transformed into a dramatic narrative. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) engages in a political disagreement with King Henry VIII of England (1491-1547) over divorce and ...
Anti-Experiment
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 Posted in Anti-Experiment | No Comments »Governor Spitzer's ordeal in what might have been a politically motivated rush to judgment is, within in the news cycle, simply another story albeit of star quality. Starkly riveting. Large numbers attended it as, like ...