All Pieces for Susan J. Cook
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
The civil liberties of the Constitution are wholesome, pure, and good. They sometimes require holding two ideas in the mind at the same time, not e...
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 05:36
Coming through the transom today, a letter from New Jersey to share. Civil Liberties: New Jersey-style!! How are they taken? Oh, I guess they mean ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 03:50
The protesters in Ukraine are showing us on a very public stage that criticism free from harassment and ridicule of the actions of public elected ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 06:47
Winning is the short view of Political gamesmanship.Fake news creation is part and parcel of it. Environmental contamination is the long view when ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 07:50
Are you concerned about your child emailing too much? Are you concerned about the effect on a child's spine of a head bent over a gaming system for...
- Added: Feb 05, 2014
- Length: 03:03
Just before the Olympics, the country if not the world received, from a bully pulpit, a message from my state's junior United States senator. On te...
- Added: Jan 25, 2014
- Length: 03:30
Those who grew up in the era of Richard Nixon knew a time when "The Kingdom" took an especially frightening aura of power and glory. One speaking t...
- Added: Jan 12, 2014
- Length: 04:39
The Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and wrong. Today's Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks: Why not mangle,`distort the i...
- Added: Jan 10, 2014
- Length: 01:04
The mid-term elections are almost upon us. Now that Obama care is working, what political issues might be nearby? What will help us make good choic...
- Added: Jan 03, 2014
- Length: 03:13
After Nelson Mandela was freed from the life sentence he was serving in prison, he often spoke about refusing bitterness toward his captors. But h...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 02:54
Well, we thought it might happen. Over at Automobile Behavioral Health they are cancelling managed car insurance policies because the new "required...
- Added: Nov 04, 2013
- Length: 03:39
Having survived the most recent episode of Gridlock by the skin of the Nation's teeth, we beyond the Beltway need to put our collective relational...
- Added: Oct 19, 2013
- Length: 03:26