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Caption: The old gray mare, she ain't what she used to be..., Credit: Susan Cook
Musical tribute to the Mueller investigation, sung if you like to the tune from "Some Enchanted Evening..", "Someone must have planted...."

  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 03:55
Caption: In Robert Indiana's childhood home, the word "love" was never spoken. , Credit: Photo of AP/ Susan Cook
We know in 2018 that invisibility of the child places the child at very high risk for maltreatment. The more invisible the child, the more likely ...

  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 07:50
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What if we could create a profoundly more equitable world? Renewable energy has the potential to disrupt power dynamics created by fossil fuels, bu...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 23:00
Caption: Stop guessing just whose financing was used..., Credit: Susan Cook
A musical tribute to a certain one hundred and thirty thousand dollars which it turns out a very special You-Know-Who-It-Is did reimburse his lawye...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:01
Caption: Enough is Enough. , Credit: Susan Cook
Shouldn't Facebook also be held accountable for their moral indifference to the human consequence of Facebook trolling that the platform's anonymi...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:35
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
From the Great American Wrongbook, in the Department of Poetic Justice, a musical tribute to the Maine Legislature's recent corporate welfare givin...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:56
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Maine's children receive grossly inadequate services from Child Protective Services. Three have been murdered or had a perpetrator convicted in Mai...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:52
Caption: HCFA-1500 in section 10D record why an abortion was performed
We cannot expect care providers to intervene with individuals who intend to use a gun to harm others or themselves unless we do everything we can t...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:55
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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
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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
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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
Caption: "The old gray mare...", Credit: Susan Cook
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
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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
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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
Caption: Seeing consequence before it happens..., Credit: Susan Cook
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
Caption: Gorilla does Hokey-Pokey as Sign Language.Squirrel helps., Credit: Susan Cook
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
Caption: ...would they leave a child with their colleague..., Credit: Susan Cook
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
Caption: "I don't hate the press, none of them. As a matter of fact, I feel sorry for them.", Credit: cartoon by Paul Szep, Boston Globe, 7/18/1974
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
Caption: A Christmas display, the one referred to in the audio piece, in a grocery store on October 27th. , Credit: Emma Henzes
It seems that the holiday season comes earlier and earlier every year. Some people love it, but many people find it stressful. Customers, small and...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: No Increased ChildCare Credit or ChildHealthcare $ from US Senate Tax Overmaul, Credit: Susan Cook
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
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
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
Caption: By ignoring Moore, Alabama's GOP now gives others a  license to sexually accost ..., Credit: Susan Cook
In the Department of Poetic Justice, and the Great American Wrongbook, "If You Had a License Like Alabama's Natives Give.." sung to the tune from "...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2017
  • Length: 02:46

  • Added: Nov 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:27
Caption: Even the subtle exhalations of rabbits heard.., Credit: Susan Cook
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
Caption: After watching "The Vietnam War" we all know more about conscience...
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