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Bob Sheak

Bob Sheak, who lives just outside of Athens, Ohio, is an emeritus professor of sociology at Ohio University.

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28 October 2012
Letter to a friend who urges me not to vote for either major presidential candidate
Bob Sheak
From what I can make of the presidential election campaign, there are differences and also disturbing similarities in the respective policies of Obama and...
09 October 2012
The Coddling of the Corporate Rich and the Big Corporations
Bob Sheak
Romney would like to deal with the jobs’ problem by rewarding the corporate rich, often way up there in the top of the 1 percent of income and wealth...
31 August 2012
The Romney’s fast lane to climate disruption
Bob Sheak
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney presented his energy plan for the nation on August 23rd to a crowd of supporters in Hobbs, New Mexico. My reading of Romney'...
09 July 2012
Power outage in Athens County and global warming
Bob Sheak
Our electric from American Electric Power came back on Thursday (July 5th) about 8 p.m. So we and our neighbors were about six days without power. We have been...
11 June 2012
U.S. military acknowledges realty of human-induced global warming
Bob Sheak
Note that in this hot, never-ebbing, electoral season, global warming is not among the issues given much attention. This is the case despite the fact that the...
05 April 2012
Fracking our way to a warmer and less stable world
Bob Sheak
Oil and gas corporations, their trade associations, mass media outlets like the Wall Street Journal and Time magazine, and numerous pundits continue to report...

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