This quote is from the Harper’s Magazine archive. We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story, is a powerful piece that goes beyond the well worn positions that are still being dragged about today. I recommend a full reading, go to Harper’s Archive to read it. “Women have abortions because they
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Imprison Pat!
Morning everyone. I’d like to share a Word of the Master video with you today. The intolerance is strong with religion and really is only a path to further divisiveness and conflict. Let’s not continue the religious cycle of marginalizing and fearing other people based on bronze age melodrama. Filed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Horse Facial Expressions?
More research required, but an interesting video non the less. Plus, what better to appease the rabid horse fans that populate DWR. 🙂 Filed under: Science Tagged: Facial Expressions, horses
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor, BWV 1043
The Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor, BWV 1043, also known as the Double Violin Concerto, is perhaps one of the most famous works by J. S. Bach and considered among the best examples of the work of the late Baroque period. Bach wrote it between
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Amanda M. Gengler – On Consuming Femininity
“Advertisers must convince young women that they are in need of constant improvement—largely to get and keep boys’ attention—without threatening young women’s views of themselves as intelligent, self-directed, and equal. Buzz words like “empowerment,” “self-determination,” and “independence” are sprinkled liberally across their pages. But this seemingly progressive rhetoric is used
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Thank Goodness for Rick Mercer and the CBC – The Para-Pan Am Games
Rick Mercer reports on our Canadian para-Panam/para-Olympic athletes with a vivacious gusto and aplomb that leaves one smiling and quite pleased to be Canadian. I am very glad the CBC exists and can provide a platform for the likes of Mercer and the good, often funny, work that he does.
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We’ll just leave this here… Filed under: Racism Tagged: Pithy Pictures, Racism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: George Takei – On Star Trek and Society
Science fiction is one of those genres that can inspire genuine hope for the future. Gene Roddenberry’s idea was well ahead of its time, let’s hope we can live up to some of the ideals he put forward as to how 23rd century life would be like. Also, I had
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Emotional Labour – Invisible to Men
A nice peek into the relationship caretaker roles that women often find themselves in. This from Brute Reason: “Emotional labor is often invisible to men because a lot of it happens out of their sight. Emotional labor is when my friends and I carefully coordinate to make
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Case for the Religious ‘Pro-Life’ Enslavement of Women
Religion treats people like shit, the further away you are from the white male ideal, the shittier your deal will be. The recent anti-choice propaganda wave in the US caused enough whinging in wordpress blogosphere that I felt compelled to wrestle with the full-blown stupid that is the anti-choice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Aren’t We More Afraid of Young White Men?
Huffpo occasionally publishes an interesting article, this would be one of them. “What I want to point out here is how the category of “young white men” has emerged from all of these horrible incidents unscathed as a group – and how this is one of the starkest examples of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Bach – March in D major, BWV Anh. 122
Another deceptively simple looking pieces from the Master. I’ve tackled this one and well, it still has the best of me. That chromatic transition at the end of the A section is just death, let me assure you. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Bach, Piano, The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Winning on Golden Balls – Is it Game Theory or just How much of an As*hole are you?)
This is what happens when you combine game theory, psychology and sociology on a gameshow you get the phenomena called Golden Balls. I have not watched an entire episode, but merely some outcomes of the final decision in which two people are given three possible outcomes for splitting, usually, a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Harper Gaming the Electoral System – Moves toward US style of BS Politics
We can only hope that Harper will begin his electoral walk of shame for his ‘extending the electoral campaign’ shenanigans. Wow, kinda early to be talking about the upcoming Canadian federal election, yet because our beloved Conservatives love power more than democracy here we are. Let’s check in with the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Vacation Planning – Dan Ariely
Well, holiday Monday is a little late to be evaluating your August Vacation plans, but some interesting thoughts as far as what your next vacation will be. Filed under: Culture Tagged: Dan Ariely, Vacation
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice: Bringing Back Traditional Marriage
Funny how christian advocates of ‘traditional’ marriage don’t bring this stuff up… Thank you Darkmatter2525 for showing one of the ‘moderates’ on the republican slate of possible presidential candidates all the while skewering loopy christian logic. Filed under: Religion Tagged: DarkMatter2525, The DWR Sunday Religious Disserivce, Traditional Marriage
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Planned Parenthood Is Not Selling Baby Parts… More Evidence Against the Anti’s
The Arbourist: An antidote to all the hyperbole and foolishness recently emanating from American fetus-fetish brigade. So, my anti-choice friends, stop wallowing in your gullibility and for *once* try to face the facts of the situation. Originally posted on Pro Abortion – Pro Life: Why would anyone want to collect
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach, Minuet in G, Anna Magdalena Notebook (Petzold)
I can play the first part. 🙂 If I can find the second part, I’ll work on that too. 🙂 The Minuet in G major is a keyboard piece included in the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. Until 1970 it was attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV Anh 114),
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Our Families, Technology and Having the ‘Right’ Experience
We can lump this video in with the others that attempt to shed light on issues in society that matter while discreetly hawking their wares in the background. The best form of advertising? I’m not sure, but the commercial makes space for some thinking about how generational experiences are becoming
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meanwhile in Post-Racist Popular Culture…
This. 46 seconds of dialogue. Cultural institutions reflect the values of society. ‘Nuff said. Filed under: Racism Tagged: LOTR, Movie Dialogue, Racism, Sad state of affairs
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