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In the Department of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning), The River Is Wide offers a poem that could be sung to the tune from a tune in the public domai...
- Added: Nov 28, 2015
- Length: 02:50
Over 100 people have died from heroin and fentanyl-laced drug overdoses this year, in Maine. Maine’s governor says he will call in the National Gua...
- Added: Nov 21, 2015
- Length: 04:47
A Town Clerk in Kentucky has refused to give out a marriage license to a gay couple, risking jail time, because the two of them marrying “does not...
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 04:13
Recently, two Washington Post reporters looked at how human beings are valued in Donald Trump world, now, and as he turned the $200000 his father ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2015
- Length: 05:57
In 1948, the United Nations said seeking asylum is a basic right to seek protection from government persecution. In my state, there is now a contro...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 04:50
I went to an exhibit of Native American basketry recently- made by Maine Penobscots and Passamaquoddies. The reception was as polished as any other...
- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 05:25
Well, in my state the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting published a lengthy article about a veteran lawmaker who is strongly supporting a ...
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 03:23
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and what is wrong. Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks what is wrong with pol...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 01:19
The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Arizona’s 2000 law which created an Independent Commission to determine Congressional Re-d...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 07:04
The ethical challenge for Facebook has been to re-create the ethics of community where there are real consequences for using information in a destr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:49
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
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
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
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
Boys' State is an experiment in Democracy that a select group of high school boys attend in Maine this week. We can hope they will learn about the...
- Added: Oct 17, 2013
- Length: 06:00
Citizens are being reminded these days of everything they don't have control over. Any nutritionist will tell you that the one thing you always ha...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 04:02
This year’s ACL festival lineup is out, and at least one major national music blog is calling it the best major festival of the year. We’ll explor...
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 54:01
In Maine, Bass fishing on West Grand Lake is a destination respite for many, including Mr. Nouriel Roubini, the legendary economist who was almost ...
- Added: Mar 23, 2013
- Length: 03:18
Many six year olds believe that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The President of the NRA, is of the same mind...
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 04:13
I am a licensed psychologist. One question routinely asked is; "Do you have guns in your home?" If they say yes, I ask, "Are they in a locked cabi...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 03:35
The Republican attack on women, a not- so thinly veiled attack on credibility, the females, that is, is not new. Women, you may remember, require ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 04:46
Delayed gratification has changed. Social science experiments often mirror cultural values and our best learners absorb them well. They do what th...
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 02:57
International Women's Day is a time for women to acknowledge how women are discredited by others. And yes women too discredit women. All of this c...
- Added: Mar 09, 2011
- Length: 04:00
Eleven years after I posted the first commentary for The River is Wide series, this remains true: Speaking and seeking the truth is not cynical.
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 03:04
At Christmas our public school kindergarten class performed the story of the birth of Christ, complete with New Testament readings, pint-size Mary ...
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- Added: Nov 30, 2008
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 1
