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While at first film and cinema seemed the ideal way to promote peace between all of the different Indian religious factions, now the relationship s...
- Added: Dec 27, 2021
- Length: 06:00
More and more celebrities are tweeting about the farmer protest in India, and while this is about the backbone of India but it’s not the farmers wh...
- Added: Feb 08, 2021
- Length: 06:00
We cannot blame social media for our worst demons. But it is undeniable that social media has made it that much easier to create that alternate uni...
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
In the not so distant past, Anonymous was usually a woman. a woman composer, artist, author, musician, writer unless she was an accused criminal, a...
- Added: Sep 07, 2018
- Length: 06:52
A musical tribute to political appointees (at the cost of the Public trust) with lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook! which could be sung to th...
- Added: Aug 22, 2018
- Length: 02:07
Understanding the abandonment of civil liberties in this country, means looking at behaviors we ignore, passive handouts of yet another fat govern...
- Added: Aug 05, 2018
- Length: 05:58
Need a quick booster shot of national pride? How about a “quote" of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange praising the Indian prime minister? Need to help fome...
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 06:00
This week we talk about ad hominem, Soviet propaganda, and red herrings.
We also discuss Pravda, logical fallacies, and hypocrisy.
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 27:25
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
This week we talk about chronological snobbery, signaling theory, and the Chicken Connoisseur.
We also discuss social cognition, Discover Weekly, ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 44:37
This week we talk about enemies who are friends, globalization, and non-polarized opinions.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 36:24
This week we talk about noble lies, compassion fatigue, and addiction.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 36:55
This week we talk about smart mobs, reddit, and Kompromat.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 41:27
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 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
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
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
Realgoodwords contributing writer Michael Goldberg shares his essay on words we use regarding hypocrisy, unthinking language in place of clarity, d...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 05:07
Maine Public Broadcasting Network has made the perplexing decision to segregate music and poetry to a separate pay-to-hear HD radio service called ...
- Added: Jun 04, 2016
- Length: 07:16
Elected officials or politicians aspiring to be elected officials say things that would register on our Hackle o’ meters and our Politically Unfit...
- Added: Mar 19, 2016
- Length: 03:19
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
With the election season over, the next phase of elected politics has settled on our plates like a bowl of jello. How can you tell when the age-old...
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 01:04
In politics, arrogance can be hired, purchased or -in volunteer organizations- a gratuity that comes with volunteer labor.- or elected. In Maine ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 05:14
In the 1950’s and 1960’s American citizens and the stalwart among them who were brave enough to run for political office had to learn to live with...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 06:04
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...
- Added: Oct 25, 2014
- Length: 04:45
