Stuff 'n' Nonsense
Author | : Harry H. Bash |
Publisher | : First Books |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2011-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781592996636 |
ISBN-13 | : 1592996639 |
Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This compilation of "my STUFF" (as George Carlin might have me refer to it) includes ruminations, essays and, frankly, spoofs that I wrote during the last decade of the twentieth century through the first decade of the twenty-first. Admittedly and predictably, some of the items betray my long-term affiliation with and dedication to the discipline of sociology. Throughout my career, I succeeded in ignoring Archibald MacLeish's warning not to "commit a social science," but I did manage to heed his other caution not to "sit with statisticians." Now, in items some of which bear an affinity to sociology, I am not above taking liberties that exceed the bounds imposed by professional sociological constraints. Thus, I commit value-judgments, I trifle with the ludicrous, and I allow myself to be opinionated!