Local Professor Compares Life to Hit Television Show in New Book

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Published May 21, 2008 at 12:51 AM EDT

By Jason Smith

Oswego, NY – A central New York sociologist and college professor says one of America's longest running and popular television shows offers more than just entertainment.

Tim Delaney teaches sociology at SUNY Oswego and has written a book about the TV show "The Simpsons".

The characters poke fun at almost every social situation and as Delaney tells us there's a little bit of The Simpsons in all of us.

WRVO's Jason Smith prepared this report.

Click here to order Tim's book.

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