By Dennis Loo Dear Jon: Have you lost your mind? While the contemporary American right-wing’s unfettered-by-facts screeds are as extreme as their policies, the left (and others such as Maj….
Category: Dennis Loo
Dennis
Loo is an award-winning sociologist, co-editor of Impeach the
President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney, Associate Professor of
Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona and an honors graduate in Government from
Harvard. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the
University of California at Santa Cruz. He is a former journalist and
his research specialties include polling, public policy-making, social
movements, and criminology.He can be reached via his blog: http://dennisloo.blogspot.com
LeBron James, the Culture of Narcissism, and What Really Matters
By Dennis Loo Last week I watched LeBron James allow, without much of a fuss, his Cleveland Cavaliers to lose to the Boston Celtics in the NBA playoffs’ Eastern Conference second…
“Sentence First – Verdict Afterwards:” New Manual for Military Commissions
by Dennis Loo Kafka would recognize this one in an instant. As David Fraft, LTC in USAF JAG Corps Reserve, former lead defense counsel in the Office of Military Commissions, writes in…
The American People Are Angry – Already
By Dennis Loo I begin with an excerpt from an article posted on April 25, 2010 at Global Research: “92 percent of Americans give the national economy a negative rating. No fewer than…
If You’re Still an Obama Fan, and Even If You’re Not…
By Dennis Loo You might be an Obama fan because you regard him as at least better than Bush. You might be an Obama fan because you believe that in…
Tiger Woods and Misogyny
By Dennis Loo Tiger professed love for each and every one of his mistresses, just as he now professes love for Elin today. When he told all of these other women that…
No April’s Fool: Judge Rules NSA Warrantless Spying Illegal
By Dennis Loo The New York Times is reporting in its lead story April 1, 2010 that the government’s warrantless surveillance over all us has been dealt a blow by a ruling…
GOP & Tea Partiers: “Let’s Beat That Other Side to a Pulp!”
By Dennis Loo On March 21, 2010, the day that the health care bill passed Congress, Republican Representative Steve King of Iowa shouted to a Capitol gathering of Tea Partiers, "If I…
What Are Leaders For?
By Dennis Loo As an example of the kind of leadership I’m advocating for in this post, see this video of Stephanie Tang of World Can’t Wait addressing the San Francisco marchers/rally…
Two Americas
By Dennis Loo On Saturday, March 20th, two starkly different visions of American today and in the future could be seen in the streets. On the one side: in the streets of…