All Pieces for Susan J. Cook
Political amnesia comes on when political polarization begins as it has with President Obama’s recent executive order about immigration. So, Presi...
- Added: Nov 23, 2014
- Length: 04:30
With the election season over, the next phase of elected politics has settled on our plates like a bowl of jello. How can you tell when the age-old...
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 01:04
In politics, arrogance can be hired, purchased or -in volunteer organizations- a gratuity that comes with volunteer labor.- or elected. In Maine ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 05:14
Sometimes, there is an ineffable quality to the offensiveness of negative campaign ads. We turn here to the sonnet to express deep concern about n...
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- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: :57
- Purchases: 1
In the 1950’s and 1960’s American citizens and the stalwart among them who were brave enough to run for political office had to learn to live with...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 06:04
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...
- Added: Oct 25, 2014
- Length: 04:45
When we see the tools of discrediting the truth happily taken on, now or in history- we might say this. The cost of the truth is, it turns out, th...
- Added: Oct 11, 2014
- Length: 11:09
The truth can be our moral antidote, our moral medicine, the vitamin that- yes, if someone is trying to tell us that nine dollars and something is ...
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 04:23
My now 86 year old brother , is still, and has been his whole life, a sailor. His boat “Significant Other”, a J-24 racing yacht will carry two. ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2014
- Length: 03:07
The cost of the truth is not tied to inflation. It’s tied to tolerance, inversely. The more tolerance that exists, the lower the price paid for the...
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 04:23
The public officials and the political candidates who shape public discourse through the impulsive and shallow convey far more about their ethics t...
- Added: Aug 23, 2014
- Length: 04:21
Legislative ethics exist to put the brakes on political gamesmanship- whether it’s trading votes to pass a bill, get a fat salaried new Federal job...
- Added: Aug 20, 2014
- Length: 10:07
Internet search engines have no way of taking context into consideration. The closest Google has come is to hone the search by user’s zip code, wh...
- Added: Jul 27, 2014
- Length: 06:37
I watched a program the other night about a 500 pound gorilla, or maybe it was a monkey whose owner taught him sign language. Whatever. I am begin...
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 04:11
The vision of Gorbachev now is destroyed by Vladimir Putin. A sonnet will remind us of what Gorbachev made possible and what is now lost by Putin's...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: :57
- Purchases: 1
I have a bi -partisan family. Maybe you do too. It makes understanding politics all the more difficult because sometimes people don’t agree. When ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 05:19
At a jazz performance, the lady next to me and I struck up a conversation. During World War II, she, a Czechoslovakian, and her family were exiled ...
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- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 1
When politicians talk about "working across the aisle", they talk about it as if they are endorsing a great ethic. But working across the aisle is...
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 07:04
I am a great admirer of bird nests and those who build them. They make them with twigs, string, down. You find them sometimes nestled inside the a...
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 06:50
Expert canoe paddlers know that a predictable sign that swimming is imminent when the canoe starts to tip in rough water is the grabbing of the can...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 06:03
