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“[T]he crowd seemed really emotionally engaged with the music.”

“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”

- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An extended version of Bon Iver’s La Blogotheque Take Away Show of “For Emma, Forever Ago” with three versions of the song and some very startled tourists.  I think this is one of my favorite things in the whole world. Not just that the song is so beautiful, and is so beautifully sung, but that [...]

A man once said, “Childrens do learn.” and I believe childrens should learn to dream big dreams. Even better is to dream arty dreams like a hipster might draw. This hipster author’s name is Dallas Clayton. Although I do not know for sure that Dallas Clayton is a hipster, he looks like this: And, I [...]

It isn’t simply that you are loved gloriously, or loved beautifully. But rather that a pitch perfect expression of love for you sounds and sounds, Rises into the very air. Though the love itself may fade, I do not know, The poetry you inspire ascends, ascending Becomes stars and you, who are so loved, Look [...]

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I sat in front of my computer this morning and watched, somewhat obsessively, as Kirk Cameron from Growing Pains attempted to dazzle the audience of ABC’s Nightline with “absolute, scientific proof in the existence of god without relying on faith.” As you might guess, he and author Ray Comfort were generally unsuccessful in this endeavor [...]

Obviously as we move closer to primary elections, we’ll start to see the wedge issues swing into the fore. And yet, this year we’re hearing a great deal more about how disappointing the religious right is finding the entire stable of Republican hopefuls. So it’s not like the religious right is likely to be avid [...]

Anyone who reads this site knows we’ve been conducting ourselves as if we were blogging for more than 10 years. That said, now that someone invented the actual word “blog”, things seem to have changed on the internet. Sure, the word kinda sounds like bad news during a lengthy bowel movement, but we’re not here [...]

“In retrospect, if Hillary had actually been in the studio…I would most certainly have been tackled outside and taken to Gitmo for my comment about throwing things at Hillary.”

So we’ve found a very illuminating map which details the level of darwinism vs. creationism being taught in schools throughout the country. For the most part, it plays out just as your liberal bias would suggest, but I’ll admit to being surprised that North and South Carolina tipped the scales in a rather surprising and [...]