HeyJaredPracticing Sociology Without a License
Observations, essays, and field notes about cannabis, culture, and the class struggle.
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Displaying Joy (opens the original)
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Questions for the Candidates (opens the original)
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Polling the FieldA decade ago, when I was managing a New Hampshire state senatorial campaign, we fielded questions from a range of “special interest groups” and individual voters. I recall one missive, in particular, from a gun owners advocacy group (not the NRA) that demanded we return a survey instrument by their deadline, or my candidate would prove he was an “enemy of the Second Amendment.”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o6wl!,f_auto
Mike Minogue Clinton’s Question 8 (opens the original)
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Boston TV station WCVB got Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue to go on record regarding Question 8. His comments may be heard by scrolling to the second clip on this page. The host asks the question at 2:05 in the video.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!skRd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3b2fb60-c1d2-40a2-8272-4a34d1f78643_74
Social Grammar & Syntax (opens the original)
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Words and ThingsThe consent to be ruled is generated in the ongoing framing of social life. Societies are ordered by language and their social order contains a grammar and syntax that is unspoken, but near-universally explain the way things are without offering an explanation.This is a marvelous illustration of a lesson never explicitly taught to American English speakers, but we all learned it, have adopted it, and enforce it. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackc
Pics, or It Didn’t Happen (opens the original)
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I am working on a piece for publication on another “platform” this morning. I promise to share it as soon as I can. Meanwhile, here is a collection of unpublished photos from last weekend’s Boston Freedom Rally. The Nor’easter that wiped out two Ed Sheeran concerts in Krafty Bob’s American-socialist football factory and the Red Sox’ last regular season
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