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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
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
A new book holds lessons on the value of not kow-towing.
- Added: Nov 04, 2017
- Length: 04:27
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
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
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
Liu Xiaobo died in 2017. His 11 year imprisonment by the Chinese government for posting subversive articles on the Internet had not ended. "No Ene...
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 05:24
Why haven't pharmaceutical companies and oil corporations been asked to make health insurance lower by reducing drug costs or refusing federal subs...
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 02:43
The Senate and House Healthcare bills will replace Obamacare subsidies with tax breaks for the wealthy. Meanwhile oil and gas companies continue to...
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 02:54
Some places, for example, the Intelligence Committee of the United States Senate serve as our country's moral proving ground. But this week‘s testi...
- Added: Jun 18, 2017
- Length: 02:57
FBI Director James Comey is being queried about whether President Donald Trump asked him to drop the investigation of former National Security Advi...
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: 04:10
Everyday the world can ask again what’s right or wrong , not just smugly proceed, go along on its merry path, answers tucked under its arm, as proo...
- Added: Jun 07, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Congress has taken on eliminating affordable health insurance coverage for all citizens. For many, this year is 'anno horribilis'. In the Departme...
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- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 04:00
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We’re joined by guitarist, producer, composer and author Dave Randall. His book, Sound System, newly out from Pluto Press, is an insider’s view of ...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 01:28:01
In the Department of Poetic Justice, as we say "Sayonara" to Tom Price, government jobs distributed as they may be, a poetic tribute called "We'll ...
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 01:47
In the Department of Poetic Justice, we offer a poetic tribute to the complex topic of hiring candidates for government jobs who carry heavy politi...
- Added: May 16, 2017
- Length: 05:08
Recently, millions protested government inaction on climate change and global warming. Let us find words to help the current administration grasp...
- Added: May 14, 2017
- Length: 02:52
Fourteen years ago this month, Maine Public Radio fired the host of a 30 year popular jazz program, The humble Farmer because he criticized the Ir...
- Added: Apr 29, 2017
- Length: 06:53
'Chuzo Tamotzu, Children’s Drawings and the Art of Resolution’ is an exhibit hosted by the Bowdoin Art Museum which presents the artwork of childr...
- Added: Apr 01, 2017
- Length: 07:35
