The Arbourist: Shocking, yet unsurprising. :/ Originally posted on Mancheeze: I took some time today to view the petition to fire/no-platform Meghan Murphy. I was interested in what these people who are calling for the burning of the witch had to say. Their petition tantrum has about 900 signatures. I’m
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Dead Wild Roses: Shameless Political Advertising – Vote for Alberta’s Orange Crush!
Time for a change in Alberta. Let’s give Ms. Notley a chance. A link here to the official Elections Alberta site. I’m look at you younger crowd, ‘unbusy’ yourself and vote this time to make a difference. Filed under: Canada, Politics Tagged: Alberta Election, NDP, Orange Crush, Shameless Political
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Black Mom’s Tell White Mom’s About “The Race Talk”.
Women will bring peace to the world (if men don’t destroy it first) and they shall do it through understanding and listening to each other. Listen to the power of their words. “Ten black mothers sat on the stage in an auditorium and looked into a diverse crowd of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Cows! Milk! Rape! RPOJ! – Christian “Morality” On Display
Usually we get to watch loopy christians say loopy stuff in support of their sincere belief in magic here on the the Disservice. Not so much fun today as we are going to look at how belief in magic can warp the moral fibre of people into condoning rape and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Edmonton Journal Saturday Editorial – Grade ‘A’ Propaganda
The amount of horseshit per square centimetre in this Edmonton Journal editorial must violate the laws of physics, it just isn’t reasonable to pack this much fail into one column of newspaper. Who wrote this tepid work of Tory apologia? To me it smells like the business owners out
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Planting Season is Coming – May 25 just around corner. :)
The kittehs and I wait anxiously for flower season. 🙂 Filed under: Cute Tagged: caterday, May 25 is on the way., Planting Season
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Piano/Vocal Milestones and May Day!
You know what is hard? Playing a song from memory. What’s harder? Singing along with your playing. This is the first song that I can do both on. Full disclosure, the Vocal part still needs work as my fingers want to sing along with the melody instead of accompanying me
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oh Alberta Don’t Fail Me Now – The Polls!
Let us hope the NDP surges to victory finally sweeping the rotten PC dynasty into the dustbin of history. I’m still very wary though, we might need round “N” of PC guided political seppuku, as 41 years of one party rule might not be enough. From the CBC – Of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Andrea Dworkin on Pornography
Let’s not have the porn = ‘freedom of speech’ argument this one time okay? I live in a country where if you film any act of humiliation or torture, and if the victim is a woman, the film is both entertainment and it is protected speech. Now that tells me
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oh Wow – Let’s Not Believe “Spirit Science”
Cool Hard Logic proves that the religious do not have the monopoly on bullshite. The New Age woo-meisters are going hard on astrophysics and thus, it is necessary slap down them down hard. CHL admirably rises to the challenge. All I can say is “ouch”. Filed under: Science Tagged:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: FHRITP! – Stay Classy Calgary Flames Fans – Example #2387461278 of #NotAllMen..
I’m curious as to how many times we need to see incidents like this. Misogyny via the expression of normative patriarchal values at it very finest in dear old Cowtown. Go take a look at the clip from CBC Calgary with reporter Meghan Grant. “FHRITP — or f–k her right in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Generation Jihad on the BBC
Religious fundamentalism of any creed, is a threat to peace, secular societies and evidence based decision making. Lets take a closer look at one strain of the radical fundamentalism – radical Islam with the BBC as our guide. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: BBC, Fundamentalism, Radical Islam, The DWR Sunday
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How Big is the Sun – Minute Physics
Take the advice and do watch in full screen if you can. 🙂 Filed under: Science Tagged: How Big is the Sun, Minute Physics, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Rachmaninoff Prelude in G minor.
Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5, is a music piece by Sergei Rachmaninoff, completed in 1901. It was included in his Opus 23 set of ten preludes, despite having been written two years earlier than the other nine. Rachmaninoff himself premiered the piece in Moscow on February 10,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Wealth Inequality – A Historical Problem.
There has always been a struggle by the people against the gratuitous accumulation of wealth and power. So the inequality we live with today is a problem that humanity has been grappling with since is inception. Tariq Ali explains how in this passage: […] In Sparta in the third
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What is Woman? – A Primer on Simone de Beauvoir
Probably not what you expected, but still accurate and interesting. 🙂 Filed under: Philosophy Tagged: 8-bit Philosophy, Philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Anti-Vaccination Position – Chickens be comin’ home to roost all over this…
Vaccination is one of those medical topics in which people tend to lose their shit. As it happens, you can also risk losing your children if you decide to embrace the foolishness that is the anti-vax movement. Here is a story of a mother’s close encounter with easily preventable childhood
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Three Cheers for the Calgary Expo – Angry Man Babies Explode in Rage!
All of the following has been cribbed from David Futrelle’s We Hunted the Mammoth – Thank you David for doing the heavy lifting on this one. “The Honey Badgers — a mostly female A Voice for Men spinoff group known for its unlistenable internet “radio” shows — was sent packing after conventioneers
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Noah’s Ark Park would be the first theme park to celebrate an act of mass genocide
The Arbourist: Too good not to reblog. 🙂 Originally posted on Believers vs Non-Believers: View original Filed under: Housekeeping
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – On Dogma
Recently on John Zande’s blog I had the opportunity to participate obliquely in a conversation with a religious believer. David, from all appearances, clutches his religious ideals tightly and furtively resists all attempts of being reasoned with and of course, reasoned <em>at</em>. As David rambled on it became clear
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