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"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922. Chapter 2 -- True History of a Tramp: "He awoke in the Dark Ages and smelt dawn in the dark, and knew he was not wholly a slave." 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. Part 2 -- The Real Aim Chapter 1 -- The Impotence of Impenitence "The root formula of an epoch is always an unwritten law, just as the law that is the first of all laws, that which protects life from the murderer, is written nowhere in the Statute Book." 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 8 -- A Summary of a False Theory: "I have up to this point treated the Eugenists, I hope, as seriously as they treat themselves. I have attempted an analysis of their theory as if it were an utterly abstract and disinterested theory; and so considered, there seems to be very little left of it." 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 7 -- The Established Church of Doubt: "Let us now finally consider what the honest Eugenists do mean, since it has become increasingly evident that they cannot mean what they say." 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 Unanswered Challenge: "Dr. Saleeby did me the honour of referring to me in one of his addresses on this subject, and said that even I cannot produce any but a feeble-minded child from a feeble-minded ancestry. To which I reply, first of all, that he cannot produce a feeble-minded child. The whole point of our contention is that this phrase conveys nothing fixed and outside opinion." 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 Flying Authority: "It happened one day that an atheist and a man were standing together on a doorstep; and the atheist said, "It is raining." To which the man replied, "What is raining?": which question was the beginning of a violent quarrel and a lasting friendship." 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 Lunatic and the Law: "The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it may or may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivably be right to kill a murderer because it is wrong to kill a man." 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 -- The Anarchy from Above: "A silent anarchy is eating out our society. I must pause upon the expression; because the true nature of anarchy is mostly misapprehended." Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls  

UPDATE: Just struck me, how will I know if this is helping?  Drop Terry a note if you buy, maybe? ORIGINAL POST: I recently received a special episode of Terry Fallis' podcast of "The High Road."  Hope you've already been listening, but if you haven't, it's attached here.  The gist of it is this: "...So while I have always preached that social media is not really an appropriate platform for hardcore selling, I’m going to cross the line this once, but I think all for a good cause. If you want to have a hand in reshaping the approach traditional publishers like McClelland & Stewart have historically adopted, please take a second to buy The High Road. Here are Amazon and Indigo links, and you’ll also find links in the left hand side bar. If we can show that the podcast helped to drive early sales, M&S will be more likely to consider podasting to be an effective way to promote new titles. As always, thanks for all the support. The High Road hits bookstores today (September

"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922. Chapter 2 -- The First Obstacles: "Now before I set about arguing these things, there is a cloud of skirmishers, of harmless and confused modern sceptics, who ought to be cleared off or calmed down before we come to debate with the real doctors of the heresy." 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. Narrator's Introduction: For the next few paragraphs I will speak for myself, to set the stage for G.K. Chesterton's book, and to suggest why I believe it is still an important book. I think G.K. Chesterton explains his book rather well in his introduction, but it might help to start with a sense of the time in question. Chesterton started work on Eugenics and Other Evils in about 1910, but it was not completed and published until 1922. In his own introduction he talks about the period before and after "The War." The war he refers to is now called World War One. We now have a distaste for the word Eugenics, largely driven by events in World War Two. But at the time this book was published, Eugenics was lauded to the skies as a wonderful idea, and Chesterton was nearly the only person saying in writing that Eugenics was in fact evil. A case could be made, and has been made, that today, though the word Eugenics is avoided, some practices that ar

Experimenting with recording the regular parts on my portable Zoom H2 Handy Recorder, and the music parts of the show via SAM Broadcaster, combining all of it in SAM. Part 1 Where does "Internationally-Renowned New Media Celebrity Grizzly Smith -- Yes, That's Me!"  Come from? Finally getting around to playing some of the music from Ariel Publicity I've accumulated.  A bit about The IDSL, which may or may not have been a successful podcast, and may or may not be coming back. Music Marie McRae - Until I Met You Part 2 Podcasting Administrivia - We Should Talk Podcast and what's up with that? Music Kelly Richey - Only The Bird Knows Part 3 Many different online services I'm on.   Not sure why.  Twitter make sense.  Facebook I'm tired of, and seems pointless (especially Gangster Wars or whatever) but everyone is on Facebook, so I need to be.  Friendfeed, but I'm not really there.  My podcatcher (MediaMonkey), but I tend to let a lot of podcasts "age out" and I don't hear al

I started a rant last time about Second Life.  Decided to Revise and Extend my remarks here, about the Mainland, exploration, Search, what SL is For, and so on, and so on. Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls      

"Hitting the Ground Running!"  The top/first 10 things you'll need to get started in voice work.  This is part 1 of 2, since we got up to about item 8 and ran out of time.  We'll finish up next time.  Theme: "Sunshine" from Kevin MacLeod.   Comments to 218-214-CALL  (218-234-2255) Contributions: https://www.paypal.me/grizzlysgrowls    Later note: This was actually the last episode of We Should Talk.

After a certain amount of begging and whining, Terry Fallis, author of the political satire "The Best Laid Plans" (winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humor) that I reviewed a long while back, gave me permission to share the first chapter of his new sequel, "The High Road," here in the Hiber-Nation.  If you've missed it, now you don't have an excuse.  :) The remainder of the book is being made available over at Terry's website.  Enjoy!   Griz    

Part 1 -- Second Lifeless I've been on Second Life for over a year now, and most of the things I've tried to do there have turned out to be hopeless and pointless.   Part 2 -- I'd better get on this one... I finally have the necessary stuff to do a project I was asked to do for Behringer, in exchange for...   Part 3 -- The Internet is Over Why Prince was right.  Kinda.   Part 4 -- The High Road Terry Fallis' new sequel to "The Best Laid Plans" is out in podcast form.  Yay!   And finally... Stuff I really gotta get done.  Soon.  Really.   Comments to 218-234-CALL, grizzly@grizzlysgrowls.com or here at the website. Theme: "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod.  

I got together with Kimi Alexandre of the "Tale Chasing" podcast and the Guardians podcast-novel to talk about her new career, as a voice actor and voiceover artist.  I'd come up with a title for a new podcast specific about voice careers and the voice acting industry:  "We Should Talk."  And well, that was pretty much all I had.  So we kind of riffed off each other and explored what we would talk about if we did manage to do "We Should Talk" as a Podcast. I now have http://weshouldtalkpodcast.com registered, by the way.  Doesn't go anywhere yet. Honorable Mentions:  Podiobooks - free podcast books Project Gutenberg - free digital copies of Public Domain works For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report PR Podcast Inside PR Podcast Tee Morris -- because we don't really have our own Nemesis yet LibriVox - free audiobooks Voices.com   Comments to 218-234-CALL, grizzly@weshouldtalkpodcast.com, kimi@weshouldtalkpodcast.com or here at the website. Theme: "Hot Swing" fro

Chapter 9, "Authority and the Adventurer" (the last chapter)   "Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and a Sequel to "Heretics."   Book Theme: "The Rule," by Kevin MacLeod   Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat

Chapter 8, "The Romance of Orthodoxy"   "Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and a Sequel to "Heretics."   Book Theme: "The Rule," by Kevin MacLeod   Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat

Chapter 7, "The Eternal Revolution"   "Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and a Sequel to "Heretics."   Book Theme: "The Rule," by Kevin MacLeod   Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat