About This Blog

 (c) 2018 by Adrian Vance

We have topped 4,500 posts, enough material to fill 130 fiction novels, but this is not fiction.  It is a searchable database system:  Input a keyword to the search routine in the upper right corner of your screen and a list of pieces will drop down, click on any one to put on the screen. This is like a brain, but it never forgets.  The parts are all over the place, but all are instantly accessible.

Broadcasters:  We put audio tracks on selected pieces for you to use as inserts, actualities or topic intros for talk shows.  Scroll down the Archive.org page for the downloadable file formats.   All are PD,  free of the seven forbidden words as I hold an FCC Commercial Operators License and want to keep it.   Please use these recordings freely.

Most will be between three to five minutes, with lengths given, and all designed for topic introduction.   We generate audio tracks where the material both calls for and lends well to on-air use.

We are also posting longer-form pieces, about 1,000 words instead of our usual 400 words for political blogs.  Some may be of interest as short features as they will be five to seven minutes on-air and ideal fill for your first segment after top-of-the-hour news if you are using the usual AM seven segment "clock," broadcast schedule. 

We here make a US Copyright claim as we are using the material in other media, but you can use any pieces on your broadcast, blog, email or newspaper opinion page if you provide a link to this site, URL in print.  We tag with "This is Adrian Vance" for broadcast so authorship and performer ID are covered per FCC regs. 

We do not want to inhibit the promotion of this material in any way, but have to declare title in order to use them in other media.  Please slug pieces you use as "From "The Two Minute Conservative" on the Internet."  Any search system will bring them here.

You can click on the opening page, pick anything interesting or input a key word to the box in the upper right corner and see a list and several pieces displayed from which to choose.  Show-prep can reduce to searching here, transfer recorded titles, then punch them up on-air. All are air-ready with short sentences in three to five word blocking for breath control and sibilant elimination.

Most pieces are 400 to 450 words which is three minutes on-air reading time at the usual 130 to 150 word per minute on-air rate. They are perfect for an "after the news" first break, three to four minute show intro, before the first spot. They chop easily as the concept leads.  We do not tease with "I am going to reveal to you..." or any other such BS.  This is all "up front" presentation.

With following program segments of six to seven minutes you have time to add local color, spin or discuss and take calls.  We have enough material here for over 400 one-hour shows.

We have a long-form, fully-scripted show blog for broadcasters at adrianvanceshow.blogspot.com  aimed at Internet radio, public broadcasting and as a podcasting blog. Each includes spot pauses for breaks on a 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50th minute radio clock schedule with ten second breaks that work well on public non-commercial stations without commercial traffic (ads) as well as easy stop points for commercial stations as long as your engineer is awake and watching the clock "big hand."  They work well for commercial broadcasters having the usual 44 minutes of program time.

Our search input box in the upper right corner selects groups on any topic if you input a name, word or concept. It takes only lower case inputs. Clicking on the date works better than clicking on the title.

We think you will find this function convenient when you want to find or re-read a particular topic.  We have over 4500 pieces, more than enough for 54 novel-length books and here release these pieces for attribution alone to newspapers, broadcasters and bloggers.  We are much more interested in promoting the ideas than anything, but want to develop the full potential of the material and are seeking wider audiences.  For that we must claim copyright under the law.

Clicking on a title shows the body of the piece.  Look for hyperlinks within for documentation and explanation of anything complicated; in need of illumination or identification of source. We are careful to cover such matters, especially for our science, math and economics pieces.  However, much of the material is original.

Where in the past we would do one or two pieces a week we now do one a day.  We welcome and run contributions as long as they do not exceed 500 words, are interesting, well-written and not commercial.   We will make exceptions for important pieces. We reserve the right to edit to fit our format and style.

You can choose from any of seven formats by putting your pointer on and listed format in the upper left corner of the screen.  Then click on the format you like to see and the blog converts instantly.

Next to "Flipcard" you will see a “Pages” dropdown menu tab that includes up to 25 references, expanded explanations, history notes, etc. that we link to from display pieces.  It has three full pages of titles so look for the paging tab in the upper right corner.

On the right side your pointer arrow will activate a popout for “Blogs we recommend,” “Archive,” “Followers” and “Subscribers” both of the last two you can join for daily free emailed pieces.

We removed the "moderation" trap from the comment input, but have the "spam" detector running.  These give you instant access to the discussion, but keep out fake Rolex, etc, ads.  We can, and will, remove anything that is insane, threatening, objectionable or offensive as soon as we know of it.

If you want to post opinions anonymously please use a pseudonym rather than "Anonymous" as we get many and they are confusing. Use "Red Ryder," "Batman" or "Captain Marvelous, Gay Superhero" so people can respond to or comment on your post.

Our original concept was to make available to other talk show hosts topic introductions I was using when on the air regularly.  They are ideally two to four minute pieces that can precede any show segment to introduce new topics and generate calls.  They are also usable by opinion page newspaper editors as they are “tight,”  “lean-and-mean,” short paragraphs and well cut.

We urge you to "clip" and send our pieces to friends and local opinion page editors.  Up to 3,000 people read these every day.  If each person sent ten copies we would cover America in three iterations. We have had over four million viewings and 98.6% have come to us in the last four years of our years on line. In the first three years we did not know what to do with this medium then the Obama Administration fell on us, but well defined a need we now try to fill. 

To "clip" a piece do a "ctrl A, ctrl C" or start at the top or bottom, hold down the left key of your mouse and drag the pointer over the text.  It will then be covered with blue or black and the letters will be white.  When it is all covered release the key. If the highlight persists do a "Control - C" from your keyboard by holding down the "Control" key and punching the "C" key once.  The highlighted text will be on your "clipboard" until replaced with something else thus you can paste it into emails or a Word file.  

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