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Some thoughts on "Californication," and what all that has to do with ordinary guys like me. Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com .   Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls      

  This is my humble response to laws claiming to defend marriage, revising and extending an earlier comment I made on Twitter.   Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com . Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls    

Yes, you could do business in Second Life.  But there's some things they didn't tell you.   Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com .   Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls    

I need your help in coming up with more stuff to podcast.  Lemme know, 'kay?   Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com .   Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls    

Got a pleasant, intelligent and informative response to a nastygram email I sent, and I wanted to give credit where it's due.  Yes, I am a crotchety old man. Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com .   Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls    

A Modest Proposal to use the space in the former Lincoln Elementary School.  It'll never happen, but here it is.   Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com . Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls      

Walking through my neighborhood, noticed some unremarkable buildings that really are remarkable, if you give it some thought. Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com .   Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls  

Had a good week, and a chat with the folks who are letting me record "Swinging Doors."  It's an honor just to be nominated. Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com .   Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls    

CHAPTER V. APPLICATIONS.   "The principles asserted in these pages must be more generally admitted as the basis for discussion of details, before a consistent application of them to all the various departments of government and morals can be attempted with any prospect of advantage. The few observations I propose to make on questions of detail, are designed to illustrate the principles, rather tha...

CHAPTER IV. OF THE LIMITS TO THE AUTHORITY OF SOCIETY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL. "What, then, is the rightful limit to the sovereignty of the individual over himself? Where does the authority of society begin? How much of human life should be assigned to individuality, and how much to society?" Book Theme: Tschaikovski Opus 40 from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com Show Theme: Pachelbel's Canon in D from...

Some Dork with a Microphone.  Just an update so there's something not way old in the feeds.  I'll do more later. Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com .   Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls    

Followup to Episode 126.  Now we know what Second Life is, what is it you do there?  Just about anything and everything, I suppose.  Second Life as Social Media.  Second Life as a virtual world and "actual" place, where you don't spend time killing people or critters for gold.  Mostly.    Oh, it turns out Chris Kirby has a brand new album, "Wonderizer."   I just got my MP3 copy from Amazon (and th...

Leo LaPorte said on "This Week in Tech" that he abandoned Second Life because "it's all about sex."  Made my jaw drop to the floor.  After I picked it up, this is what I wanted to tell you about Second Life, what it's not "all about," and what it is, at least from my viewpoint.  Used a tune called "Day Job" from Chris Kirby's album "Vampire Hotel" on the show.   Back when I interviewed him on The...

Chapter 3 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.  Part 2 of 2 "Having said that Individuality is the same thing with development, and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings, I might here close the argument: for what more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nea...

Chapter 3 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.  Part 1 of 2 "Such being the reasons which make it imperative that human beings should be free to form opinions, and to express their opinions without reserve; and such the baneful consequences to the intellectual, and through that to the moral nature of man, unless this liberty is either conceded, or asserted in spite of prohibition; let us ne...

Chapter 2 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.  Part 4 of 4 "In politics, again, it is almost a commonplace, that a party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life; until the one or the other shall have so enlarged its mental grasp as to be a party equally of order and of progress, knowing and distinguishing wh...

Chapter 2 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.  Part 3 "To abate the force of these considerations, an enemy of free discussion may be supposed to say, that there is no necessity for mankind in general to know and understand all that can be said against or for their opinions by philosophers and theologians. That it is not needful for common men to be able to expose all the misstatements or...

Chapter 2 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.  Part 2 "Aware of the impossibility of defending the use of punishment for restraining irreligious opinions, by any argument which will not justify Marcus Antoninus, the enemies of religious freedom, when hard pressed, occasionally accept this consequence, and say, with Dr. Johnson, that the persecutors of Christianity were in the right ..." Bo...

Chapter 2 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.  Part 1 "... Let us suppose, therefore, that the government is entirely at one with the people, and never thinks of exerting any power of coercion unless in agreement with what it conceives to be their voice. But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitima...

Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTORY "The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual." Book Theme: Tschaikovski Opus 40 from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com Show Theme: Pachelbel's...

Various tunes from Ariel Publicity, including:   Savio Rego - Moving On Stephen Luke - Powered by Love Beth Bombara and The Robotic Foundation - Conversation Roy Jay - California Grey Mark Radcliffe - Miss Hard to Forget   Theme music "140 Times" from Rock On, out of Minneapolis MN. Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls  

The rebooted version of IDSL.  Don't have the actual List to work from anymore, but I have other sources for music, of course. Music includes:   Amy Coleman - Where Are You Lily Sparks - Stars Maria Dunn - The Elder Sister Lori Lieberman - Killing Me Softly Brant Christopher - Shoes for Margaret   Found all of these on Ariel Publicity/CyberPR.  Enjoy. Theme music "140 Times" by Rock On.  Thanks, f...

Yes, this is my 125 episode, and as of tomorrow it'll be four years since I started.  Yay.  :) A GOOD DAY!. I got a call for a short Temp assignment, which happens to be working for a temp agency that's working for another company that's working for our Public Radio folks.  Only three degrees of separation.  Wow. Sure will be nice to be working again. Oh, and I found my lanyard for my glasses.  An...

"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922. Chapter 8 -- The End of the Household Gods: "The only place where it is possible to find an echo of the mind of the English masses is either in conversation or in comic songs. The latter are obviously the more dubious; but they are the only things recorded and quotable that come anywhere near it." Chapter 9 -- A Short Chapter: "Rou...

Yet another IDSL, this one recorded while live-streaming in Second Life at my little jazz club there, Ours Ballroom.  (Technically, This Ballroom of Ours.)  Had a few tech flaws, but it's not too bad.  Again, all Ariel Publicity music. Music Included: Maria Dunn - The Peddler The Juniper - The Juniper Shalone - Potential Golddigger Savio Rego - Chai Time Davy Mooney - Maybe Tomorrow Stephen Luke -...