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Too often, political and/or religious ideologies stop open dialog. It’s time to speak freely and break down the barriers that keep people separated. Let’s have an inappropriate conversation about …
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Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
The first venture into TalkBack podcast episodes was thematic, Christmas shows in November-December 2018. It isn't hard to find running themes in past episodes of Inappropriate Conversations. A focus on the impact of gun usage starts here, revisiting October 2015, and will continue later in the month with a story that was 30+ years old in February 2013.
I tend to tire very quickly over gun control debates. The conversation always seems to devolve to extremes. Worse, what should be an open discussion on the relationship between rights and responsibilities never starts.
If you make it impossible for people to make you happy, people will lose interest in whether you are happy or not. No, I'm not interested in the happiness of people who love objects and use people. It's true regardless of where such people stand on any political spectrum. Some things, once broken, cannot be restored.
http://www.inappropriateconversations.org/e/173-seeing-spot-run/
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Some Assembly Required (A NeoSurrealist Forsaking a Habit for Lent)
Chapter 4
Did You Hear the One about V-8 Nate?
Prior Restraint
Premarital Skydiving
"Characters don't always say what writers want them to say, and it's ignorant to presume otherwise."
Different Drummer: Jackie Speier
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
With the second Senate impeachment trial of my lifetime scheduled to start any day now, I've chosen to schedule this TalkBack episode in advance for future release. That's a risky move. Who knows what might happen between now and then? To me, that's one of the challenges of dealing with current events on a podcast intended to be more evergreen than the news of the day. And the impeachment covered in this podcast is more than 20 years old now!
http://www.inappropriateconversations.org/e/40-other-high-crimes/
Friday Jan 03, 2020
Friday Jan 03, 2020
Considering how prominent sex is on the logo for Inappropriate Conversations, I haven't touched that topic as often as I could. I may explore some reasons why in the next Inappropriate Conversations recording for #IC #222. We'll see. In the meantime, this past episode from 2010 provides valuable background information, recalling a time when the church taking sex education seriously did not have anything to do with protesting, banning, or undermining it.
http://www.inappropriateconversations.org/e/14-sex-education-the-protestant-way-then-not-now/
Happy 2020!
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
What if I go low instead of high? The named Different Drummers might be people like:
Mitch McConnell
Rick Wiles
Franklin Graham
Candice Keller
As opposed to the real answer this time.
Different Drummer: Michelle Obama
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
For science in particular, great leaps forward sometimes happen primarily because a person with means chooses to leave a very different legacy than a name on a building. The birth control pill is one example, a particularly relevant one still today.
Different Drummer: Katharine McCormick
World Contraception Day
Rethinking the Abortion Conversation
Saturday Mar 10, 2018
Saturday Mar 10, 2018
Highlights, poetry/prose, essays, and Different Drummers from the first 8 years of Inappropriate Conversations, which started on March 7, 2010.
Different Drummer: Derek Jarman
Highlights
195: Telling Your Stories (Before It's Too Late)
Poetry and Prose
93: Poetry Providing Perspective
Essays
29: My Prayer for a Football Game
59: 10 Areas of Agreement about Abortion, part 1
60: 10 Areas of Agreement about Abortion, part 2
Different Drummers
22: Art and the Strange Bedfellows
50: The Most Significant Art Form
87: Used Record Stores and a Healthy Aquarium
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