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Selling whatever this country has, for money, of course, at every turn, even at the highest echelons of government, has become the highest priorit...
- Added: Feb 11, 2017
- Length: 07:05
Millions of women all over this country are protesting the denial and exclusion of women’s rights by the new Washington, DC throne holder. So to e...
- Added: Jan 21, 2017
- Length: 03:09
The Presidency and being Presidential staff are not power pills that work their way out in sweat and perspiration after swallowing. They are power ...
- Added: Jan 18, 2017
- Length: 03:39
Like the Defense Industry, Obamacare was created to keep America strong. Like the Defense Industry, Obamacare government stipends are paid to priva...
- Added: Jan 06, 2017
- Length: 01:12
If you missed the smearing, cheap shots and character assassination against women this year, and one woman in particular, maybe you were cut off f...
- Added: Jan 01, 2017
- Length: 08:11
How does a whole country find its better angels. We hear that this new administration’s policies will deny care to the most vulnerable, escalate ...
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 07:11
Possibilities for a suppression of the Electoral College vote results are gone. We now come to terms with the reality that at least for the next fo...
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 04:59
There is always, someone, somewhere who "like a bird on the wire" from Leonard Cohen's song, is trying “in [his or her] way to be free“.
Since 1...
- Added: Nov 13, 2016
- Length: 07:40
As women in this country grieve the lost opportunity to elect a woman President, the widespread sanctioning of Donald Trump’s sexploitation is ther...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 05:11
In honor of the upcoming Presidential race, The River Is Wide presents a melding of our favorite features. A Citizen's Guide, A Sixty Second Moral ...
- Added: Oct 29, 2016
- Length: 01:34
In today's Department of Poetic Justice, we offer a musical tribute to a fictional radio host, Rushton Limbo, who poetically longs for the respite ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2016
- Length: 02:53
The anniversary of the loss of my childhood friend who died from suicide just passed. She, like many women, was sexually abused and never told an...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 07:59
Today’s Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks when men engage in sexploitation whose responsibility is it to refuse to sanction or accept as ‘just the wa...
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 01:14
The then director of the Harvard Eating Disorders program gave a talk to a small group of eating disorder mental health providers in my work town. ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2016
- Length: 07:33
Today's Sixty-second Moral inquiry brings quotations from the Republican Bible on Adultery which ask 'Why Shouldn't the GOP Presidential Candidate...
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 01:18
This US Presidential campaign has been characterized by a striking absence of empathy. No empathy between candidates and a Social Code that defines...
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 07:05
Today The River Is Wide introduces a new specialty item : the two and a half minute Conspiracy Theory. We don’t want to ramble. We’ll keep it brief...
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 03:14
When Mitch McConnell and the Republicans snub a duly elected President and the American people who want a Supreme Court nominee to be vetted throug...
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 07:13
In my state, a few years ago a bright, articulate local woman ran for the state House of Representatives. Her campaign slogan was ‘Fight Like A Gi...
- Added: Aug 01, 2016
- Length: 05:32
As the battle wages on between the unarmed and the armed, the armed and the armed, the open carry armed and the concealed carry armed, the proble...
- Added: Jul 30, 2016
- Length: 05:19
The American voting public has become as gullible about Election polls as they are about quick weight loss plans. In Maine, Election eve, 2010, t...
- Added: Jul 23, 2016
- Length: 08:01
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks "What's the Difference Between Politicians Who Refuse to Consider What Politicians in the Other Party say a...
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 01:02
The widespread permission in this country to be mean, to arm oneself to be as mean as possible is deeply alarming. The beginning of this permissio...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 07:01
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
The real meaning of the Buddhist concept of karma is murky, but the Republican Presidential campaign has become an explanatory sponge for it- fully...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
