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I'm a sociologist. My information: Male, middle aged, married, children, NoCal, and my SES is just above poverty. I live in a rural area, beautiful but poor.

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: People watching: 1 of 25

People Song! People and people and people, doing what they doodlie do. People are not islands, even when all alone. People we look and people we think people we seek on the phone. People we cheer and people we fear people we hear in our head People we hate people we hire people we mourn when they're dead. Like wheeling birds...
Sciences > Social Science (Other) Which came first: Language or culture?: 9 of 19

The question, "which came first, language or culture" assumes there is a meaningful division between culture and language, and there is not such a clear division. Likewise, there is not such a nice distinction between "communication" and "language". Sometimes it is useful to break things up to understand them, but when we de...
Politics, News & Issues > Party Politics & Ideology Assessing the future of gun rights in the US: 8 of 14

I consider the right to keep and bear arms a fundamental right which protects all other rights. I believe, as Thomas Jefferson did, that citizens need to own guns not only to repel aggressors, but to preserve their freedoms against government, which is forever trying to increase its power. Thomas Jefferson said many things i...
Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) The draft is immoral: 4 of 5

The draft is not only immoral, it is unAmerican. The Constitution speaks of rights which are inalienable, which means they can not be separated from the person, because they are endowed by the Creator; the second and most dear is liberty. A draft forces a person against their will to leave the pursuit of happiness, and perha...
Sciences > Sociology Dysgenics: A serious threat?: 3 of 3

"Dysgenics" is not really a scientific term, but word that betrays a class value. It claims to describe a situation where people with "bad" qualities are more represented in the population than people with "good" qualities. Implicit in the word are middle and upper class values of what is "good". Dysgenics attempts to create...