The Turning Point - 09/29/11

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An interview, with music... 

A talk with David Evanier, author of a new biography: All The Things You Are, The Life of Tony Bennett...  

Tony Bennett's been through it all-- Rags to Riches, you might say... A poor kid in the Depression, combat in WW2, dealing with record business sharks, the mob; marching in Selma with Martin Luther King; hitting bottom with bad marriages and drugs, then rising from the ashes...   We play a couple of his songs as well...

The Turning Point 09/22/11

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The Turning Point - 09/15/11

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It's Fashion Week in The Big Apple!

Mike reviews the latest Fall fashions... Then, later, he speaks with special guests Plato and Thomas More about the origin of the utopian ideal and the possibility of a real utopian society developing in the modern world.

The Turning Point - 09/08/11

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Where is Victor Hugo When We Need Him?

Four shows for the price of one!!! ...

A review of Les Miserables (the book)--and the prescience of Hugo's genius; a snapshot of Mike's personal history; a critique of the Republican presidential debate and its attendant horrors-  And, a short outburst about "Patriot" Day (9/11).

Act now to get this great deal!!!

The Turning Point 09/01/11

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Affairs of The Heart

Mike volunteers to be experimented on by aliens... A modern bedtime story, with monsters and mad scientists-- Awesome! Overwhelming! Frightening! But, naturally, it all comes out OK in the end.

The Turning Point 08/25/11

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The Turning Point 08/18/11

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Take Me To The River

A spontaneous emission on post-traumatic stress disorder, American Exceptionalism and the leveling benefits of the awareness of mortality.

The Turning Point - 08/11/11

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Tim DeChristopher - A Courageous Man

Hard times now, much like The Thirties and The Sixties. What we need are leaders with brains, courage, integrity and eloquence. Look around for someone like that now--there's not much to see.

One such person who might fit the bill is Tim DeChristopher; sentenced two weeks ago in Federal Court in Utah for standing in the way of the Government and The Oil and Gas Industries.

Please check http://www.peacefuluprising.org for Tim DeChristopher's story and read his Statement To The Court. It's truly inspiring.

The Turning Point 08/04/11

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 An Empty Mind is a Full Mind

Zen koans explained; Books and movies reccomended; Secrets of Nature revealed; How the Koch brothers and Grover Norquist designed and built Barack Obama; The Great Cycle of Birth and Death, as played out in Riverside Park, and much, much more...

The Turning Point 07/28/11

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Playing to Win on The Titanic

What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Nothing. But, Hippie haze that engendered such sentiments aside, if the human race doesn't get rid of all religions, national boundaries and make a serious effort to breed across color lines, the world will be (literally) cooked. So, as a start to saving the world, let's all join hands and pray to God to end all religions.

The Turning Point - 07/21/11

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The Death Ceiling

If we realistically taxed the rich, stopped killing people overseas, and had Medicare-for-All like other civilized countries, we could probably afford all the health care support that Medicare and Social Security (pitiful as that is) provide.

But still there remains a question...  Should our lives be preserved to the very last breath, no matter how non-functional our brains and bodies become? And should the rest of the country be required to pay for it? Some questions asked...

If we realistically taxed the rich, stopped killing people overseas, and had Medicare-for-All like other civilized countries, we could probably afford all the health care support that Medicare and Social Security (pitiful as that is) provide. But still there remains a question...  Should our lives be preserved to the very last breath, no matter how non-functional our brains and bodies become? And should the rest of the country be required to pay for it? Some questions asked...

The Turning Point - 07/14/11

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The Best News Money Can Buy

The best thing about the recent cave-in chez Murdoch is the cancellation of his bid to control the the largest Satellite TV network in Britain.

All over the world, and, particularly, here in the USA, more and more radio and TV stations (and Newspapers) are owned by a decreasing number of huge, conservative corporations. Nothing is a great threat to free speech, and thus Democracy.

Do we want "One Nation Under Murdoch" or a genuinely free media?

The best thing about the recent cave-in chez Murdoch is the cancellation of his bid to control the the largest Satellite TV network in Britain.All over the world, and, particularly, here in the USA, more and more radio and TV stations (and Newspapers) are owned by a decreasing number of huge, conservative corporations. Nothing is a great threat to free speech, and thus Democracy.Do we want "One Nation Under Murdoch" or a genuinely free media?

The Turning Point - 07/07/11

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The Turning Point - 06/30/11

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The Turning Point - 06/23/11

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The Turning Point - 06/16/11

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The Turning Point - 06/09/11

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Political Correctness

Is it just Anthony or are all men Weiners?

A rambling discussion of various topics but focusing on male-female relations, political correctness and the minute-by-minute struggle to maintain your balance as a human being in an off-balanced world.

The Turning Point - 06/02/11

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The Death Of A Brave Woman

Travel back to the Forties and Fifties when Men were Men and women were just women. Mike celebrates the life of a very unusual woman and talks about gender/cultural life back (and not so far back) in the day.

The Turning Point - 05/26/11

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The Atomic Fifties

A verbal slide-show of atomic weapons, bad science fiction movies and pyscho-cultural roots -- Japanese and American.

The Turning Point - 05/19/11

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The End Of The World Is At Hand!

According to FamilyRadio.com, the beginning of the END OF THE WORLD starts this Saturday (May 21st). It will end completely on October 21st.

If you're listening to this anytime after May 21st you're doomed (were not raptured up to be with The Lord). That means you still have to brush, pay your rent, go to work, and get along with other people. In other words, bunky, you're still in hell.