The Turning Point - 2/2/12

Weirdness Abounding, or Sick, Sick, Sick.

These days, if you don't have Asberger's, ADD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Mood Affective Disorder, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Depression, or Bi-polar Disease... Well then, you're just not normal.

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The Turning Point - 01/26/12

Getting Off The Big Wheel

Alan Watts, Meditation, Buddhism, Identity problems and Rudyard Kipling's Kim-- a story about adventure, religion and love.

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The Turning Point - 01/19/12

Knee Surgery - Why Can't We Be High All The Time?

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The Turning Point - 01/05/12

A reflection on the Pakistani Telecommunication's Office list of banned words and phrases.

Ass Puppy, Monkey Crotch, Flatulence, Jesus Christ and Love Bone (is that a dog treat?) are just some of the one thousand BAD words that you can no longer text in Pakistan. It's a rough job, setting policy for the language police, but somebody's gotta do it!

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The Turning Point - 12/29/11

Lynn Samuels Remembrance -- Love, Death and Radio

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The Turning Point - 12/22/11

REPEAT PROGRAM: 11/17/11

Is it possible to feel sorry for a serial child molester?

What kind of punishment should such a person get? What kind of people and what kind of culture would allow these things to happen for years and do nothing about it?

Penn State, The Catholic Church, The Military and our Fatherless President.\

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The Turning Point - 12/15/11

Caution! Religion is Dangerous To Your Health; a prayer for the holidays.

There is nothing in human history that has brought such suffering and misery to this planet as organized religion and 95% of religious teaching.

We are in the midst of a great tempest. Toss God and his holy book overboard and your craft will safely reach the shore.

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The Turning Point - 12/8/11

In The Beginning Was The Word... But the word became, like, boring, you know?

Is language devolving? Are we headed back to childhood, cave days or ancient civilizations where pictures were used to tell stories instead of words? The new world of texting may soon dispense with language and switch to something called emoji.

...Well, who needs language anyway? People just lie or don't know what they're talking about in the first place.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/technology/emoji-in-iphones-signals-a-shot-at-mainstream-success.html

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The Turning Point - 12/01/11

Comic, Video Games, Cartoons.. Warping our minds or a necessary fantasy outlet?

Now that we have your attention... Today's show is centers around a new book: The Stan Lee Universe--about the man who was (and is) Marvel comics.

Mike interviews Danny Fingeroth, long-time writer and editor at Marvel comics-- Danny is the co-editor (with Roy Thomas) of a new book on Stan Lee; a collection of articles, interviews and other mementos of the super-hero of comics.

A short history of comics and lively discussion about violence and anomie in comics and video games.

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The Turning Point - 11/24/11

REPEAT PROGRAM: 11/03/11

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The Turning Point - 11/17/11

Penn State/State Pen-- Questions about Jerry Sandusky and Fatherless Boys.

Is it possible to feel sorry for a serial child molester?

What kind of punishment should such a person get? What kind of people and what kind of culture would allow these things to happen for years and do nothing about it?

Penn State, The Catholic Church, The Military and our Fatherless President.\

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The Turning Point - 11/10/11

Caution! Old People Crossing

"If I only knew then what I know now." Right- But it would also be a good idea if old people (like your host) even knew now what they should know now.

The grand, perfect circle of youth and old age spins, and having spun, moves on...

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The Turning Point - 11/3/11

Zombies and Vampires on the Attack!

Every day is Halloween in America these days...

Imaginary Zombie Immigrants crossing the border, trying to eat our White Christian Hearts... and--not so imaginary--Wall Street Bankers descending from their penthouse offices every day to suck our blood...

An examination of how the fears, desires and rages of mass American culture turn into popular entertainment and mindless consumption.

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The Turning Point - 10/27/11

Aswim in a Wi-Fi World

Scientists say, "if you can't see it, hear it, taste it, feel it, or smell it -- if you it's not subject to measurement, then it doesn't exist. ...And I say, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in a brain-mapping lab. Halloween is upon us...

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The Turning Point - 10/20/11

Pre-Occupied...Why We Should All Support The Occupy Movement. 

First, a frank discussion of newly discovered debilitating psycholgoical disease -- then on to the real roots of The Occupy Movement and why the Tea Party needs to throw away their silly hats and muskets and join the Occupier

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The Turning Point - 10/13/11

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A Spontaneous Emission About Nuclear Fission-- J. Robert Oppenheimer and the building of the bomb. 

A discussion of the book: American Prometheus -- which is the life and times of Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb project.

Oppenheimer was an atheist, a genius and as close to a Communist as you could get in the 30's without joining the party. He regretted what he was doing while he was doing it and opposed the building of more and bigger bombs afterward...

Question: How could a man like that survive successfully in our America? Answer: He didn't.

The Turning Point - 10/06/11

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"The police are not here to create disorder, they are here to preserve disorder."

                                   Chicago Mayor Richard Daley 1968 

Time out of mind, the police have met peaceful or legitimate protest with gratuitous violence. And in the process-- India in the 20's and 30's, Selma, a thousand places in the 60's, and now on Wall Street, we see that the police are the final expression of corporate/government power.

And, by their vicious behavior, they're doing us all a favor. What often would be a simple, limited march or protest turns into a revolution when the real power shows it's teeth.

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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REPEAT PROGRAM: 06/02/11

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.