The BBC gives a little more background – ” Islamic State has become synonymous with viciousness – beheadings, crucifixions, stonings, massacres, burying victims alive and religious and ethnic cleansing. While such savagery might seem senseless to the vast majority of civilised human beings, for IS it is a rational choice.
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Bach, Gavottes I & II (Cello Suite V, BWV 1011, guitar)
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Science Video of the Day – Why Hyperventilation Drowns People
You’d think we would have given up on common sense by now… Filed under: Science Tagged: Fun Facts, hyperventilating, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Street Harassment – Whistling at your Mother.
Watch dudes flail and fail as they are caught treating women like objects instead of people. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Lima, Street Harassment
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Capitalism – Laying the Foundations for our Extinction.
I’m at the point in life where I’m not really all about saving the planet anymore. Oh sure, I recycle, carpool when I can all of those little personal things one can do to be more “earth friendly” but until we reform our current ‘limitless growth paradigm’, we are well
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – If Jesus Returned – darkmatter2525
Darkmatter2525 is at it again, placing the Jebus back on earth – but of course in this new security conscious era things might not turn out for the best. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christianity, DarkMatter2525, Jesus, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disserivce
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A look into Sam Harris and Islam – Liberal Viewer
Some beliefs are so dangerous that it may be ethical to kill people for believing them. – Sam Harris. This is a dangerous quote from Mr.Harris because it muddles the line between action and intent. How can there be any sort of dialogue when one faction can be singled
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Les Barricades Mystérieuses
Les Barricades Mystérieuses (The Mysterious Barricades) was composed in 1717 for the harpsichord by François Couperin. It is the fifth piece in his “Ordre 6ème de clavecin” in B-flat major from his second book of collected harpsichord pieces (Pièces de Clavecin).[ It is emblematic of the style brisé characteristic of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meninism?
My very first thought was: “What foolishness is this?” Then I saw a blurb about Meninism on the Time website. The hashtags #Meninist and #Meninism have been around Twitter for more than a year, and the people who use them generally fall in two camps: people who use the term
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tariq Ali on the Upcoming Greek Election
*Update – The election results are in. There might be hope for the people of Greece in their upcoming elections. Excerpts of an interview of Tariq Ali hosted by Kostas Vlahopoulos and Thomas Giourgas. “3. What is your view of the current sociopolitical situation in Greece? Tariq Ali: The situation
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why I am a Feminist – Evidence Based Feminism
Long video. Start at any point to see why feminism is necessary… Long video – transcript here. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: evidence based arguments, Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Best Propaganda Gigs Are Self Perpetuating – Racism in Canada.
When one turns to the word “propaganda” images of totalitarian states come to mind – Pravda, The North Korea Times. We envision an army of Winston Smith’s carefully scrubbing the news of improper thoughts and meanings, carefully crafting the government approved message of the day. Of course we don’t
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: As If You Needed Another Reason to Pick Up a Musical Instrument.
Playing an instrument enhances your cognitive abilities. I just wonder if they’ll find a way to motivate people to practice. 🙂 Filed under: Education, Music Tagged: Music, Playing an Instrument, TED talk
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The CBC Music Songcamp- Cecilia
The Collected works of Simon and Garfunkel was my very first CD purchase. Let me assure you that all three of those disks saw a great deal of rotation back in the day (1987ish onward). The third disc was my favourite back then, as it was the most ‘modern’
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Heart of Whiteness – 2015 Oscars
I usually don’t pay attention to the Oscars and other such award shoes. Playing League of Legends, tweezing my eyebrows, cleaning the tiles in the bathroom all are significantly higher on my to do list that giving a frack about the Oscars. This story caught my attention though, provocatively
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: RSA Animate – The ABC’s of Persuasion
We have not featured an RSA animate here at DWR like forever, so here we go a quick hit in the qualities of persuasion you should have. Filed under: Social Science Tagged: ABC’s of Persuasion, RSA Animate, Sociology
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Premium Orange Juice. Oh Indeed!
We can file this Orange Juice Fiasco safely under the heading of corporate conduct that manages to screw the consumer, adhere to the barest letter of the law, and be scandalously profitable all at same time! Heuristically speaking, what the major orange juice producers are doing is considered
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – MisterDeity responds to the Pope.
Sometimes the Pope makes a error when speaking. We all do. But this was not one of those times and Mr.Deity unabashedly and quite colourfully rips into the perfidious pontiff over his comments about the recent murders in France. *Strong Language Warning* I’m not sure what the pope was thinking
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Notice of Irregular Blogularity
Children will be my downfall. I contracted a thoroughly wretched virus exactly one week ago. It has been kicking my ass all over the place as of late. Thus, posting might be a bit thin for awhile as any thoughts past drinking tea and staying warm seem quite far away
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