Later than usual this year, but here we be in temperatures colder than -20 degrees centigrade along with our first 20 cm of snow. We’re walking in the Winter Wonderland now. *cheers*Filed under: Cute Tagged: Babushka Kittehs!
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Dead Wild Roses: Mars: The Death of a Planet
I’m tired and not braining much today, so sit back and enjoy this astronomical short on Mars. 🙂 Filed under: Science Tagged: Death of a Planet, Mars
Continue readingDead 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 […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Domestic Violence – A Step Forward in Alberta
First and foremost if you are experiencing Domestic Violence in Alberta check out these numbers from the Human Services branch of the Alberta Government: “Talk to trained staff over the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in more than 170 languages. Chat anonymously online with staff from noon to 8:00 p.m., […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Escorts double down in the face of clinic property destruction
Need Heroes? Look No farther… Source: Escorts double down in the face of clinic property destruction Filed under: Housekeeping
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: #Cover the Athlete – Sexism in Sports Media
Yet I still hear people everday proclaiming that we are ‘done’ with feminism and that ‘for all intensive purposes’ the sexes are treated equally in society. Horsefeathers to those notions, I say. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Sexism, Sports Media, The Status Quo
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – ‘Passacaglia’ from Battle Star Galactica
We are putting this on the list of piano music that is too damn hard right now, but stuff I will eventually be able to play. Watch his hands after the first repeated section – what is going on is that he is alternating quickly between two sets of notes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rachel Moran on Prostitution – Job Qualifications…
Rachel Moran describes some of the ‘qualifications’ necessary in sex work prostitution. “If we accept prostitution as ordinary work, then we should be able to speak about what the skills of prostitution are…. The ability to control your reflex to vomit. The ability to restrain your urge to cry. The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Remembrance Day – Like it matters.
Remembrance day is supposed to remind us of the horrors of war and the terrible sacrifices that were made by people and nations. The hope for the future is not to tread on these futility grim paths of barbarity. Yet we do. Repeatedly. Syria Yemen (drone massacre of a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How to Beat a Lie Detector?
Other that the fact that lie detectors are not reliable, here’s what to do… *g* Filed under: Humour Tagged: Humour, Lie Detectors
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: John Bowlby – A Secure Base – Five Therapeutic Tasks
To be honest, I could excerpt most of Bowlby’s book. It is that good. However, little things like time and copyright concerns limit me to providing some of the highlights of attachment theory and how big a change it was from traditional psychoanalysis. “The first is to provide the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religion Makes Children Meaner.
How could a set of rules, ostensibly designed to threaten people with eternal and damnation ever cause them to be less empathic and more judgemental toward others? I just don’t see that happening – commonsense tells me that people with religious dogma pounded into their skulls, if anything, should
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Women’s Work – Ani DiFranco
“I find it metaphorically resonant that a pregnant woman looks like she’s just sitting on a couch, but she’s actually exhausting herself constructing a human being. The laborious process of growing a human is analogous to how a woman’s work is seen. It’s hard to recognize, because a man’s work
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Vienna Symphony Orchestra Project
Oh 1986, what a year you were. It brought us the VSOP and the melding of classical and pop music. Yes friends, lets go back and kick it down with some Rock Me Amadeus. Listening to the tune again made me laugh at a couple of spots, the sampling is…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rebecca Reilly-Cooper On Germaine Greer – Identity Politics Has Become a Cult.
I would suggest that you go read the full article by Rebecca Reilly-Cooper on politics.co.uk right now, as it describes the situation facing many feminists today. Increasingly there is no debate, there is only complete acceptance of a set of views or you’re marginalized. This is not a rational give
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Alberta @ Noon: Let’s (*not*) Gut the Public Service
Be it resolved – If the Private Sector is cutting jobs in a economic downturn then the Government of the day should also be cutting Public Sector. This is my debate point. You won’t find it anywhere in the Alberta@Noon podcast I’m about to link here. I know most
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Here is what Sexism Does…
The definitional understanding of what sexism can only take one so far. Living it, raging against it and grappling with it are in another category completely. This from the tumblr blog One Word at a Time. “here is what sexism does. one day it’s catcalling, and you answer back
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Satan, Football, and the ‘Persecution’ of Christians.
“My special magic is true and yours isn’t.” This is shall be the running theme of our look at the recent hullabaloo at Bremerton High School, in Washington state. The story breaks down as this. Football Coach guy leads a christian prayer on the 50 yard line after each
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Frightday Musical Interlude – The Monster Mash
Yet another DWR interlude that reveals how old yours truly actually is. 🙂 I have this on vinyl direct from K-tel records and distinctly remembering twisting-out to this groovy tune as a child. Happy Pre-Halloween all. Filed under: Music Tagged: Dating the Author, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude, The Monster
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Canadian Conservative Interim Leader – The RMR
The Conservatives are without their Uncle Joe now – who is next big Conservative Leader to be? Rick Mercer’s advice, don’t be the first one… 🙂 Filed under: Canada, Humour Tagged: Canadian Politics, Conservative Party, Post Harper, RMR
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