Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude: The stuff you grow up with – Angel of the Morning – Juice Newton

  **Fascinating stuff, I heard this tune, while doing the dishes, on CBC’s Vinyl tap(!).  I usually cast a jaundiced eye toward shows centred around pop music and what not, but Saturday evenings, the choices available of good non-commerical radio is notoriously thin. **So, dishes with the ‘Tap’ it was. **And a quick trip through […]

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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religion and Patriarchy – Doing ‘Solids’ for Each Other All Over the Damn World.

Welcome gentle readers.  Today I ask of thee but a kernel of patience whilst I set up the topic at hand. Religion and Patriarchy actively conspire against the female half of humanity.  We have to look no further than Christian Patriarchy over here and Islamic Fundamentalism over there to see the corrosive effects of religion […]

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