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Meditations and recollections on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; with guests and listener call-ins.

 

 

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Thursday
Dec232010

The Turning Point - 12/23/10

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Brother Mike

Mike fires and brimstones his way through a sermon on the evils of Greed, Corruption, Hypocrisy and The American Way. For depression due to these causes, he prescribes heavy pharmaceuticals and reserving a berth on the new Noah's Ark (now under construction in Kentucky).

Thursday
Dec162010

The Turning Point - 12/16/10

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Christmas Time...

...means family time, so why are millions of people ready to jump off a bridge?

To be in a family, to raise, or attempt to raise, a family; to play the role of Father, Mother, Daugher, Son, Husband, Wife-- and to be your self at the same time... Its the great balancing act we all perform (or attempt to perform) every day.

Thursday
Dec092010

The Turning Point - 12/09/10

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Wikileaks

America marches steadily down the path toward a fascist state; the reaction of our corporate-owned government to Wikileaks and Julian Assange shows, sadly, that every instance of illegal, immoral and cynical manipulation revealed in the leaked cables is true and continuing.

Thursday
Dec022010

The Turning Point - 12/02/10

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No Country For Old Men

Is there room anywhere for anything old in American Culture. Is "New" automatically a guarantee that something's better and "Old" that a guarantee that its worse? An out-loud pondering on the subject.

Thursday
Nov182010

The Turning Point - 11/18/10

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"Bang, Bang, you're dead!"

Used to be a game boys played with toy guns... Now, with "progress", people can play video games where they have "fun" machine-gunning Vietnamese in sampans... And grown men sit at consoles on air force bases in Nevada and real people 12,000 miles away are blown to pieces by predator drones. Has American finally stepped over the line into mass psychosis?

Thursday
Nov112010

The Turning Point - 11/11/10

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Reality and Illusion

Mike talks about some of the elements of successful ("good") art, then about the almost complete erasure of the line between reality and illusion in America..

Thursday
Nov042010

The Turning Point - 11/04/10

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A Man Among Men

Mike tells a story about his experiences at an old, strange warehouse in his neighborhood-- and talks about what it means to be a man in the world.

Thursday
Oct282010

The Turning Point - 10/28/10

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Halloween

Halloween is coming and so are the mid-term elections. Who knows which is scarier?

An essay on Halloween-- from the 1950's to now; a discussion of the thin border between this world and the next-- and pointing out the real demons at large in our country today.

Thursday
Oct212010

The Turning Point - 10/21/10

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First Amendment

Should any and all hateful and outrageous speech be protected under the first amendment? The Supreme Court recently heard a case testing the outer limits of free speech and the damage it can cause individuals. Are some kinds of speech more protected than others?...

Friday
Oct152010

The Turning Point - 10/14/10

RE-BROADCAST OF PREVIOUS SHOW

Thursday
Oct072010

The Turning Point - 10/07/10

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Boy Commits Suicide, Thousands Cheer!

A commentary on the recent death of a boy viciously humiliated on the internet by his college dormitory roomate. American society and culture is well on the way to imitating the Roman Empire just before its collapse.

Thursday
Sep302010

The Turning Point - 09/30/10

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Satchell Paige said: "Never look back, something might be gaining on you."

...But if you never look back, you can be sure it will gain on you.

How much history (our own, personal history, and the collective cultural consciousness) should we study? What's too much, too little?

An audio essay...

Friday
Sep242010

The Turning Point - 09/23/10

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The great devolution of American politics and the deliberate dumbing down of the political class...

"I'm ignorant, I drive a pick-up truck, I shoot moose from helicopters, I've gone bankrupt several times and participated in sex orgies on a satanic altar. I know you'd like to have a beer with me. ...And that's why you should elect ME to represent you in Congress"

Thursday
Sep162010

The Turning Point - 09/16/10

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Streams of consciousness...

Mike is looking to adopt a dog, travels to a parallel universe, recalls a few bad anniversaries that occurred at this time of the year, then tries to re-enter his current incarnation--with some success....

Thursday
Sep092010

The Turning Point - 09/09/10

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Overseas

CIA and army assasination teams, failed surges and covert support of corrupt allies. At home: "Christians" burn Korans, and the Border Patrol pulls people off American Trains and Buses, demanding to see their papers...

America commemorates Sept. 11th, 2001 by showing its worst side to the rest of the world.

Thursday
Sep022010

The Turning Point - 09/02/10

REPEAT SHOW: The Turning Point - 06/10/10

Friday
Aug272010

The Turning Point - 08/26/10

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The New York City "Mosque" hysteria...

A sincere effort to sow the seeds of peace falls on the old ground of basic American Racism--and a thousand crazy plants bloom. 

...An angry/sad monologue on basic American racism, cynical political opportunism and media thugs exploiting fears and inciting riots. Is it just part of human nature to always need an evil enemy?

Friday
Aug202010

The Turning Point - 08/19/10

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How and why we forge our own chains, build our own jail cells...

The empty comfort of loneliness vs. the pains of love.

Friday
Aug132010

The Turning Point - 08/12/10

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PFC Bradley Manning and Wikileaks

Is anything permissible, any law or rule to be broken, to give the American public the information about the wars fought in its name?

Is the giving of the documents to Wikileaks the same as Daniel Ellsberg giving the NY Times the "Pentagon Papers?"

When is the violation of the laws of national security a patriotic duty and when is just a treacherous crime?

Friday
Aug062010

The Turning Point - 08/05/10

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What lies between hitting a home run or striking out? 

...Alex Rodriguez, Zen archery and the complex psychology of attempting perfection.