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Keep CBS Out of My Uterus
Submitted by barcode 2x on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 15:27.By MZ. MANNERS, WHO DOESN'T MEAN IT LITERALLY
For real. This is craziness. We are living in the post-apocalypse already. I feel like this could have all been avoided. I am officially boycotting the Superbowl. Which is fine, because I wasn't going to watch it anyway. But now that CBS has pulled a clever little stunt, it's official. I'm going to watch PBS Masterpiece Classics instead.
Read More »Republican Response, Bob McDonald of VA
Submitted by barcode 2x on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 23:30.10:25 - He's white.
10:26 - First round of applause comes when he echoes the same thing Obama said about joblessness.
10:27 - Quotes Jefferson, and adds "Today, the government is simply trying to do too much."
10:28 - "The proper limiting of government at every level" gets big applause.
10:29 - So far, with regard to policy, isn't he saying pretty much what Obama said? His message is strictly Republican, but his talking points are in agreement with the President, so far.
Read More »Recent Discussion
Is there an appropriate place for ads about abortion?
Submitted by barcode 2x on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 16:38.CBS plans to play an anti-abortion advertisement during the Superbowl. Many argue it's not the right place and time. But is there an appropriate place for it anywhere on TV? Would it be appropriate during any major network broadcast?
Featured Podcasts
Ethics in Teaching Music: Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra
Submitted by barcode 2x on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 11:19.Join Bart and Jeanine as master organist/composer/improviser/teacher Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra gives a lesson in the ethics of teaching music. In the second half of the program, Bart gets a chance to play an improvised duet with the master organist. Please join us in listening to all or parts of this fascinating discussion. Listed below are the approximate times during the podcast where certain topics are discussed and related links. To skip to a section, simply click the button on the moving bar and slide it to the correct time.
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Ethics in Teaching Dance
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Working Ethics Podcast Series
An Arborist's Ethics
Submitted by barcode 2x on Sun, 11/22/2009 - 13:34.Barton Bund talks with Arborist Jack Richardson, founder and CEO of Guardian Tree Experts. The Ann Arbor tree care company approaches the work from a scientific point of view, helping clients preserve their trees, not just cut them down. The young entrepreneur talks about how he started his business on the right ethical foot, and where he sees it growing. Environmental ethics and business ethics are a constant balancing act, in a town with as many trees as this one.
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Special Reports
Ordinary People Rallying Around Science
Submitted by buona_forchetta on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 00:36.Just in time for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Bill McKibben’s 350.org campaign is enlisting support in the form of candlelight vigils. McKibben recently spoke at Ann Arbor’s Rackham Auditorium, at an evening sponsored by the Ecology Center. The author of the first general-audience book on climate change (The End of Nature, 1989), his new organization recently pulled off what CNN called “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.”
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