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The Hippie Professor
http://hippieprofessor.com
The Hippie Professor is Jim Dougan, a Professor of Psychology at a small Midwestern university. The blog includes a bunch of liberal political opinion interspersed with the occasional set of song lyrics, biting musical commentary, and fluffy musings on life
Recent Posts
Stuck in the middle with you (as long as you agree with me)
Moonbats to the left of me, Wingnuts to the right… Here I am, stuck in the middle with you – with apologies to Stealer’s Wheel Have you noticed that people on the left have trouble these days talking with people on the right – a...
Ralphie and Aldo and Stephen and Barak
In recent years the “Ralphie Marathon” has become a Christmas staple. You know Ralphie – the pudgy bespectacled hero of A Christmas Story? The film routinely ranked as “favorite Christmas special?” What is your favorite...
Hoosier tort reformer?
I lived in Indiana for about five years. My first job out of graduate school was as a post-doc and visiting professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. It’s a great place, and I eventually assimilated pretty well – I enjoyed the Little 50...
The Subtlety of Modern Racism
Today I get to be a psychologist and actually talk about something in my field…. A few days ago, I made a blog post in which I “called out” overt acts of racism found within the “tea party” crowd. It is safe to say that the post was contro...
Calling it what it is…..
Each morning for the last few weeks I have been engaging in what is quickly becoming a masochistic exercise. I tag surf. For those of you uninitiated in this thrilling sport, “tag surfing” is visiting blogs in which recent posts have used a par...
Open Minds….. NOT!
I observed something very interesting right after Obama’s health care speech last night. I logged into the blogsphere almost immediately after the speech ended and started doing some tag surfing. As expected there were a variety of quick reacti...

