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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 then Chris wanted to send me one, oh well...) and I look forward to listening to it.  Might be getting a signed CD for a later giveaway, we're talkin'.  ;) Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls  

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 IDSL he said I could use his music on my show.  He may even vaguely remember who I am.  I encourage you to buy and check out the rest of the album, too -- I think the title tune from "Vampire Hotel" reminds me of almost all the clubs in Second Life where I've DJed late into the night.  Except of course we take vampires a lot more seriously in Second Life.  ;-) Oh, it turns out Chris Kirby has a brand new album, "Wonderizer."  I just got my MP3 copy from Amazon (and then Chris wanted to send me one, oh well...) and I look forward to listening to it.  Might be getting a

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 nearer to the best thing they can be? or what worse can be said of any obstruction to good, than that it prevents this?" Book Theme: Tschaikovski Opus 40 from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com Show Theme: Pachelbel's Canon in D from Owen Poteat of Owenpoteat.com Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls  

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 next examine whether the same reasons do not require that men should be free to act upon their opinions—to carry these out in their lives, without hindrance, either physical or moral, from their fellow-men, so long as it is at their own risk and peril." Book Theme: Tschaikovski Opus 40 from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com Show Theme: Pachelbel's Canon in D from Owen Poteat of Owenpoteat.com Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls    

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 what is fit to be preserved from what ought to be swept away." Book Theme: Tschaikovski Opus 40 from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com Show Theme: Pachelbel's Canon in D from Owen Poteat of Owenpoteat.com Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls    

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 fallacies of an ingenious opponent." Book Theme: Tschaikovski Opus 40 from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com Show Theme: Pachelbel's Canon in D from Owen Poteat of Owenpoteat.com Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls    

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 ..." Book Theme: Tschaikovski Opus 40 from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com Show Theme: Pachelbel's Canon in D from Owen Poteat of Owenpoteat.com  Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls  

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 illegitimate. " Book Theme: Tschaikovski Opus 40 from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com Show Theme: Pachelbel's Canon in D from Owen Poteat of Owenpoteat.com Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls    

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 Canon in D from Owen Poteat of Owenpoteat.com Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls      

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, folks. Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls  

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.  And you should care because....  ? Started recording from practice scripts I found at the Edge Studios website.  Recorded 35, and put a couple in this podcast.  What do you think?  Talked about doing a demo disk, if I can make up my mind what should be on there.  Eventually I'll get it. 1-800-COLLECT Demo I've always started with seriously Entry Level jobs, with not much in the way of qualifications.  Broadcasting and voiceover requires coming in the door with talent and skills. Maybe I have them, but I find it hard to ask for that sort of job.  Very new to me

"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: "Round about the year 1913 Eugenics was turned from a fad to a fashion. Then, if I may so summarise the situation, the joke began in earnest. The organising mind which we have seen considering the problem of slum population, the popular material and the possibility of protests, felt that the time had come to open the campaign. ... But as a matter of fact this is not the first chapter but the last. And this must be a very short chapter, because the whole of this story was cut short. A very curious thing happened. England went to war. This would in itself have been a sufficiently irritating interruption in the early life o

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 - The Devil Won't Think Twice Still don't know how often these will come out, but so far, one a day.  :) Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls      

A quick, hacked-together version of The IDSL, using only tunes I got from Ariel Publicity.  Since my account there doesn't work anymore at the moment, I couldn't get to bio information, but now that I think about it, I may be able to get it from other sources for future shows.  How many shows, how often?  Who knows?  I barely got this one done. Music includes: Beth Bombara - Abandon Ship Nicholas Howard - Mother Maree McRae - Urgency Nina Vox - So Sue Me Dala - Lonely Girl Kelly Richey - What in the World I'll try to come up with links for alla those, wish me luck!  :) Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls     Griz

"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922. Chapter 7 -- The Transformation of Socialism: "Socialism is one of the simplest ideas in the world. It has always puzzled me how there came to be so much bewilderment and misunderstanding and miserable mutual slander about it. At one time I agreed with Socialism, because it was simple. Now I disagree with Socialism, because it is too simple." Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls  

"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922. Chapter 6 -- The Eclipse of Liberty: "If such a thing as the Eugenic sociology had been suggested in the period from Fox to Gladstone, it would have been far more fiercely repudiated by the reformers than by the Conservatives." Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls  

"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922. Chapter 5 --The Meanness of the Motive: "Now, if any ask whether it be imaginable that an ordinary man of the wealthier type should analyse the problem or conceive the plan, the inhumanly far-seeing plan, as I have set it forth, the answer is: "Certainly not." Many rich employers are too generous to do such a thing; many are too stupid to know what they are doing." Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls  

"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922. Chapter 4 -- The Vengeance of the Flesh: "By a quaint paradox, we generally miss the meaning of simple stories because we are not subtle enough to understand their simplicity." Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls  

"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922. Chapter 3 -- True History of a Eugenist: "He does not live in a dark lonely tower by the sea, from which are heard the screams of vivisected men and women. On the contrary, he lives in Mayfair." Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls