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It’s barely four months since the Las Vegas massacre, and already it’s all but forgotten. Now comes the Florida high school mass shooting and we mu...
- Added: Feb 20, 2018
- Length: 03:16
As Bath Iron Works ships become more sophisticated in their use of sonar devices, we recall the 40 million dollar Maine Legislature approved tax br...
- Added: Feb 11, 2018
- Length: 09:56
Elected representatives have taken a new approach to legislating. Only their own district or cell or voting area can receive information from there...
- Added: Feb 03, 2018
- Length: 01:25
The World Health Organization, a United Nations affiliated committee almost succeeded in passing a resolution affirming breastfeeding as the best,...
- Added: Feb 01, 2018
- Length: 05:58
Reconciling one man's self-defined Free Trade Agreements (Eeew) is hard to do. A Poetic Tribute to the lyrical dilemma of paying $130000 for somet...
- Added: Jan 28, 2018
- Length: 02:45
From The Great American Wrongbook and In Today's Department of Poetic Justice, a poetic tribute to the question: what's wrong with violating the ci...
- Added: Jan 26, 2018
- Length: 04:43
This American Life recently reminded us that the Democratic Party doesn't seem to get who it is anymore. Is it the Political Gamesmanship that's do...
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 05:54
Dance in Chains, traces the history of modern political imprisonment from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century and draws on examples from regi...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 59:28
We know the consequence of indifference.In late 2017, Maine witnessed 3 murders of children: 2 by foster care-takers, one at the hands of the no...
- Added: Jan 08, 2018
- Length: 05:20
Not too long ago, I watched a program about a 500 pound gorilla whose owner taught him to sign. That gorilla, all grown up, would move his fing...
- Added: Dec 26, 2017
- Length: 04:35
There has been a sudden shift in the hopeful tides that the Christmas season brings- toward hope that the majority in the US Senate will change. T...
- Added: Dec 13, 2017
- Length: 03:39
Drawing from The Great American Wrongbook, in the Department of Poetic Justice, which could be sung to "I want a Girl Just Like the Girl..."
- Added: Dec 11, 2017
- Length: 02:13
The recently passed Tax Overhaul bill declined to increase the child care credit while leaving no money for the Children's Health Insurance Program...
- Added: Dec 05, 2017
- Length: 05:20
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry "Will the real problem of sexual predators using positions of power to target women be ignored if false equivalenci...
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 01:24
A new book holds lessons on the value of not kow-towing.
- Added: Nov 04, 2017
- Length: 04:27
Three Sisters is being performed by the Indiana University Theatre Department at the Wells-Metz Theatre on campus beginning this Friday, October 13...
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 34:55
Turning once again to the extensive value of nursery rhyme to bring us deep understanding, which brilliant skilled public servants did Donald Tr...
- Added: Oct 07, 2017
- Length: 03:05
Freud never quite cornered the market on Conscience. After two weeks spent with the Burns/Novick film ‘The Vietnam War”, the complexity of conscie...
- Added: Oct 01, 2017
- Length: 05:56
The Senate Republicans have introduced a bill to send all Affordable Care Act funding back to the states so states can deny coverage to citizens an...
- Added: Sep 21, 2017
- Length: 02:01
In Rockland, Maine celebrants of the 129th birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay gathered zoomlike to honor her poetry. A woman's genius valued for i...
- Added: Sep 17, 2017
- Length: 05:32
I’ve been asking for about 9 years now why Red Pines that have thrived for hundreds of years would die. Not that I knew 9 years ago they would die....
- Added: Sep 02, 2017
- Length: 03:45
In the Department of Poetic Justice, to the tune from 'I'll Be Seeing You', an Ohm for Mr. Bannon, updated now that he refuses an Insurrection Day ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2017
- Length: 02:18
The US Senate bill to limit immigration by educational status ignores that opportunity is exactly what oppressive regimes deny. Opportunity -as ev...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 05:59
The highest production of greenhouse gases in the US comes from the West Jefferson, Alabama Miller Electric Plant. The parent company- The Southern...
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 02:55
"What Do We Owe You?" This poetic tribute to the failure of the Republican sponsored bill to end healthcare for millions of Americans- could be sun...
- Added: Jul 18, 2017
- Length: 02:47
