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Non-verbal Political Commentary for the Speechless! A How-to Citizen's Guide!
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Bears? Lizards? No! Chameleons! Nonverbal Political Commentary!, Credit: Susan Cook
In speechless times, a practice to express how your world looks now.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:53
The 60 Second Moral Inquiry: Isn't Exploitation of the Instinct for a Parent-Child Bond Similar to Sex Traffickers Exploitation?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks, how is Attorney General Sessions' indifference to exploitation of the basic human instinct for parent-chi...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:06
The Indifference Diaries, Part 3. Using Good To Create Evil, Seizing the Parent/Child Bond to Punish
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Being of the wrong lineage, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, now carries devastating consequences for the children of parents caught crossing...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2018
  • Length: 08:57
In the Department of Poetic Justice: Someone Must Have Planted
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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
The Trouble: Doppelganger
From: WBEZ
Caption: Prison photos of Ricky Amos (left), and the wrongfully incarcerated Richard Jones (right)
Richard Jones was sentenced to 19 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Seventeen years in, he discovers he has a look-alike, with the same...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
No Reason Two: Asking Questions About Gun Access for a HCFA-1500 Form
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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
A Scar on the System
From: WNIN
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When Bloomington, Indiana, psychologist Albert Fink crashed his car and confessed to police that he had falsified a mental evaluation in a criminal...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
Watch Your 500 Pound Gorilla Very Carefully: A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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
In the Department of Poetic Justice:It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas..."
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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
In the Department Of Poetic Justice: "I Want a Leak Just Like the Leak that Richard Nixon Had..."
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Does False Equivalence Lead to Minimizing the Real Problem?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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
In the Department of Poetic Justice: If You Had a License Like Alabama's Natives Give..."
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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
The World According to Suck-ups, Part 1: A New Book Pants, I mean, Paints the Picture
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Our National Character may benefit by learning not to suck up..., Credit: Susan Cook
A new book holds lessons on the value of not kow-towing.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2017
  • Length: 04:27
In the Department of Poetic Justice: Uncle Donald Had a Farm
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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
In the Department of Poetic Justice: Take Them Off Our Agenda (Ending Affordable Care)
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
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
''Bannon's Farewell Pose'' to the tune of ''I'll Be Seeing You''! Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook!
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: ...yoga is liberal..., Credit: Susan Cook
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 Two and 1/2 Minute Conspiracy Theory: The Best Conspiracies Are Those In Which Co-conspirators Didn't Sign Up, Weren't Asked, Don't Know They're Part of It
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
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
In the Department of Poetic Justice (the song and dance genre) : What Do We Owe You?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
"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
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Liu Xiaobo. A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: His last words...Love as intense as ice..., Credit: Susan Cook
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
Control Over Gun Use By Those Who Cannot Control Themselves: Changing the Meaning of Control in Gun Control
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Maine has witnessed many domestic violence tragedies. In 2017, a woman, her son and a neighbor killed by her out of control partner were one of t...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
Toxic in Texas
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week takes us to Texas, where we hear from Candice Bernd, speaking at the 2nd Fight Toxic Prisons Conference, which took place earlier this mo...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:59
In the Department of Poetic Justice (from The Great American Wrongbook): Donald Trump's Executive Order Recently Filed; Your Colonoscopy is Driving Him Wild
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
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
In the Department of Poetic Justice (The song and dance genre): You Don't Know This But You're Making the Federal Deficit Too High
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
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
Still A Fried Mosquito and a Black-Eyed Pea: Froggy Still A-courting To Take the Affordable Health Care Act Down, But Froggy has Become Greedier, Less Compassionate
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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The US Senate and House Healthcare Bills hold no intention for the government to feed the whole crowd, like those in the song "Froggy Went A'Courti...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 07:40
The Two and One-Half Minute Conspiracy: Is Congress Losing Credibility as a Moral Proving Ground?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
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