Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

 Why is it so easy to forget, or deny, that a hundred million Americans are poor or near-poor?  In this commentary, Clayton Morgareidge suggests it's because our consumer culture represents us all as willing and able buyers of commodities.   You can read this commentary ... Read more

  Tom Becker hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which will include -- Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss the role of psychology in the military; Jan is is the director of Mind Zone, a film about the work of psychologists with troops in Afghanistan.  Jan was recent... Read more

 Bill Resnick talks with local activist Michael Moore (not the documentary film-maker) about Governor Kitzhaber's new healthcare plan, community care organizations (CCOs) and the on-going struggle for single-payer or something like it. Michael Moore works with Sisters of... Read more

Tom Becker reads Valerie Tarico's Alter-Net article "15 Ways the Bible is Used by Christians and the GOP to Control and Malign Women". Tarico examines over a dozen ways that the Bible subtends a misogynistic and patriarchical rationale that conservatives are using to fue... Read more

 Larry Bowlden, our Book Mole, reviews Penelope Lively's new book, "How It All Began.". Larry focuses on the web of causation triggered by a chance mugging of one of the characters and the way these developments eschew any independent force or directive guiding our lives... Read more

 Denise Morris interviews fellow Mole, Jan Haaken. In addition to working with the Old Mole, Jan is a clinical psychologist and documentary film-maker. Her most recent film, "Mind Zone: therapists behind the front lines", has received national attention and she's appeare... Read more

     Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with local healthcare activist and worker at Sisters of the Road Michael Moore about Governor Kitzhaber's recently enacted healthcare plan. Tom Becker reads an article about how the... Read more

 Denise Morris will be your host and  Movie Moles Joe Clement and Iven Hale review The Lorax, based on the Dr. Seuss book. Well-read Red Frann Michel comments on the "theft" of education by parents enrolling their kids in the wrong schools. Clayton Morgarei... Read more

 Financial institutions and wealthy individuals can make lots of money buying options on oil, driving up the price, so that we drive on $4+ gas.  Mark Cooper is  Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America where he has responsibility for analysis and advoc... Read more

 Well-read Red Frann Michel  discusses the case of Tanya McDowell, a homeless, Black single mother, sentenced to 12 years in prison in Connecticut for using her babysitter's address to enroll her son in a Norwalk school.  Frann details the many ways in which governments ... Read more