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faith in honest doubt

http://danceswithanxiety.blogspot.com/

I blog on whatever angries up the blood or otherwise inspires commentary -- often politics and religion, but also culture, music, books, poetry, science, beauty, truth, these internets, and the most dangerous topic of all .... man.

Added on: Sep 5th, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Dale
Listed in: Liberalism Atheism
Tags: books science humor philosophy running ponca city

Recent Posts

Carl Sagan Day

Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 14:13 in books, science

I don't quite know what it means, but I like it since it favorably concerns one of my very first man-crushes, Carl Sagan: Carl Sagan Day is tomorrow! I assume there will be lots of science-y stuff going on. Holy crap, I was right! I would ask that Ca...
The Question of Being Party to the Party

Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 13:41 in politics

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) sends regular fundraising appeals to at least two of my e-mail accounts, and generally, I am fine with that. As a Democrat, I want Democrats to keep and enlarge their majority in the Senate. But her...
KUFO Presents Weenie & The Butt

Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 12:44 in people-watching, meta-, conceits

In what ought to be local news, I happened to be listening when Portland's KUFO radio began its on-air days-long sassy robot-voiced countdown to inaugurate the changeover from Rick Emerson and Cort & Fatboy to what have turned out to be forgettable, ...
"The tiniest sparks and the tenderest sounds" -- Middle Cyclone Awarded

Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 20:51 in music, neko

I didn't quite realize amazon.com had editors, but it is apparently so, and they have named Neko Case's Middle Cyclone the album of the year for 2009. Huzzah!For anyone not already aware of my hopeless fan-boy status with respect to Neko Case and Mid...
You\'ll Love John Cusack\'s New Yacht ... Or My Name Ain\'t Nathan Arizona!

Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 20:50 in Film, conceits

Having just received the DVD of one my favorite movies ever, Raising Arizona, I admit I was expecting a little more from this mashup between it and the next big-budget piece of unwatchable crap coming at us, 2012. That said, I've seen worse, if only ...
Mad Men: Back, and to the Left

Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 23:01 in people-watching, tee-vee

To this spoiler-rich video summary of the penultimate episode of the current Mad Men season I will add the observation that its Betty-Don interaction can be construed as a vindication of blaming women for men's bad behavior.*Consider that for all of ...