Episodes
Tuesday Jan 11, 2011
42: The Morning After for classic made-for-TV movies
Tuesday Jan 11, 2011
Tuesday Jan 11, 2011
Films made for television between 1967-1976: Run a Crooked Mile, The Longest Hundred Miles, Shadow Over Elveron, Probe (Search), The Stranger, City Beneath the Sea, Vanished, Hunter, Duel, Brian's Song, A Cold Night's Death (Chill Factor), Trilogy of Terror, A Short Walk to Daylight, Go Ask Alice, The Man Without a Country, Death Race, Trapped, The Morning After. Different Drummer: Dan Carlin Common Sense & Hardcore History
Saturday Dec 18, 2010
40: Other High Crimes
Saturday Dec 18, 2010
Saturday Dec 18, 2010
The impeachment of Bill Clinton near the end of his presidency was one of the most embarrassing moments in the history of the United States government. The president virtually declared that he couldn't define the word "is." More than 200 representatives in Congress demonstrated a weak grasp of the word "other." Millions of dollars were wasted on an assumption that a majority of American voters didn't know what they were doing when Clinton was elected, not once but twice! Embarrassing, indeed. Different Drummer: Alexis de Tocqueville
Wednesday Nov 17, 2010
36: Misconceptions Regarding Abortion
Wednesday Nov 17, 2010
Wednesday Nov 17, 2010
It's interesting to see how pro-choice friends react when I define abortion as the killing of an unborn child. It is also interesting to observe the reaction of pro-life friends when I suggest that such a killing isn't necessarily or always "unjust." Obviously, we have to clear up a few things before we can even define the word abortion, much less deal with the issue. Different Drummer: Judith Jarvis Thomson
Thursday Sep 16, 2010
28: Capitalism in the realm of ideas
Thursday Sep 16, 2010
Thursday Sep 16, 2010
If we are serious about free market capitalism, then we shouldn't be name-calling or establishing barriers to the free exchange of opinions and beliefs. This notion is consistent with America's founding fathers. It is consistent with the writings of the apostles who spread the word of Jesus without any help from a ruling majority in government. Are we "restoring America" to those perspectives? If you are watching rallies on TV and reading the news, you don't really know what "restoring honor" precisely involves. I wonder why. Different Drummer: Thomas Jefferson
Friday Aug 13, 2010
24: Elections are not horse races
Friday Aug 13, 2010
Friday Aug 13, 2010
Representative democracy has almost become a joke in the United States of America. The two-party system gives voters a false, and limited, sense of choice where the parties themselves join forces to keep other options out. Worse, it often seems like no one votes their conscience anymore. We complain about the "lesser of two evils" while so easily settling for just that. We will never get anything better until we stop trying to "pick the winner" and start demanding something better than a "race." Different Drummer: Ralph Nader
Tuesday Jun 15, 2010
15: Declaring war on ‘Just Say No’
Tuesday Jun 15, 2010
Tuesday Jun 15, 2010
When it comes to drugs and drug policies, we'd better say much more than just "no." In many ways, the "just say no" campaign invested its power in the simplicity of ignorance. After all, if you merely abstain then you never have to understand what you are abstaining from. Or do you? Education is crucial because knowledge is the only way to avoid being duped ... or doped. Different Drummer: Steven D. Levitt
Friday Jun 04, 2010
14: Sex education the Protestant way; then, not now
Friday Jun 04, 2010
Friday Jun 04, 2010
Knowledge is power, and it is very difficult to resist temptations that come out of nowhere. Being prepared and understanding consequences are crucial ways of making good choices when other options are very tempting. When I was growing up, 10 years old, education was the approach my parents and my church used for sexuality. And it wasn't "abstinence only" either. I openly wonder whether my Protestant denomination would handle sex education the same way today, or at all. Different Drummer: Alex Comfort