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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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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
Also:
Saturday May 13, 2017
Saturday May 13, 2017
Minority experiences and law enforcement.
Different Drummer: Claudette Colvin
Jimmy Cliff - "Piece of the Pie"
Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit"
The Clash - "Know Your Rights"
The Beatles - "Piggies"
The Boomtown Rats - "The Elephant's Graveyard"
Public Enemy - "Welcome to the Terrordome"
Public Enemy - "Fight the Power"
Ice T - "Body Count"
Steve Reich - "Come Out"
801 - "Law And Order"
Michelle Shocked - "Graffiti Limbo"
Nahko and Medicine for the People - "Make a Change"
Bob Dylan - "The Times They Are A-Changin'"
Bob Dylan - "Blowin' in the Wind"
Sounds Of Blackness - "Black Lives Matter: No Justice No Peace"
Sounds Of Blackness - "Time for Healing"
Bob Marley & The Wailers - "Get Up Stand Up"