again with Harmonic and Imitative Analysis. Filed under: Music Tagged: Bach Invention No.2 in C minor, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
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Dead Wild Roses: The Feminist Battle against Male Entitlement and Rape Culture
An excerpt from The Feminist Battle After the Isla Vista Massacre by Rebecca Solnit: “Six years ago, when I sat down and wrote the essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” here’s what surprised me: though I began with a ridiculous example of being patronized by a man, I ended with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Greenwashing Capitalism – Doomed to Fail
This is what we get for not changing the system that is killing us – a half-assed, piecemeal romp toward oblivion. “Richard Smith, in a tour de force paper published in the Real-World Economics Review, “Green capitalism: the god that failed,” summed up the dilemma: “[T]he problem is not just
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Elephant in the Room: Mis*gy3y.
The intro to an article I wish I had written. How is that a man can leave a 140-page manifesto describing, in explicit detail, how much he hates women, why he hates women, why he thinks women deserve to be punished, and precisely how he plans to punish them —
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ha-Joon Chang – Economics Is NOT too complicated for the Average Person
Mr.Chang is the author of the 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. It is a accessible book on Economics and economic theory that really, everyone should read. This brief twenty minute talk on understanding Economics is both necessary and enlightening. Filed under: Education Tagged: Economics, Ha-Joon Chang
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Saving Women’s Lives – A Divisive Issue for Stephen Harper.
Letting women die because of unsafe abortions is awesome! Isn’t is cute when our politicians decide that keeping the zany religious fruit-bats in their ‘base’ happy is more important that saving women’s lives? Just ask our lovely PM Steven Harper all about appeasing the religious zealotry that makes up a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: C-Words ~ by KYBorn
The Arbourist: The C-word Forced Birth Advocates avoid. Originally posted on Everysaturdaymorning's Blog: No, not that C-word. I couldn’t resist a chance to say, “Made You Look,” which seemed to be the height of wit when we were all in kindergarten. Yes, I do have a point. Stay with me.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Whose Bible is it Anyway?
The notion that the bible is the inerrant word of god is a joke. Try more like the ‘telephone game’ but using different languages and just saying no to clarity and connection to historical accuracy. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Bible, Biblical Folly, Lost in Translation, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hurrah, Snow Season Over!
All Hail Mosquito Season… Sigh. :/ Filed under: Humour Tagged: Meh, Mosquitos, Snow Season
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach’s Invention No.1 in C Major
Listening to music is awesome. Listening to music and understanding what makes it amazing is ‘double-plus’ awesome. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Bach, Invention No.1 in C Major, Music Analysis, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Smile While We Contaminate Your Water – Gas Land Documentary
Business as usual. Enjoy? Filed under: Politics Tagged: Corporate Folly, Corporate Greed, Fracking, Gasland, Shitting on the Public Trust, Shitting where we eat
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Three Minutes of Why Christianity is Absolute Bollocks
It has been educational as of late watching and following thread where the deluded try to defend their belief in magic. People with more patience and experience than I, when it comes to dealing with this level of supernovae-grade ignorance, carefully deconstruct the mendacity and obfuscation and gently tell the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Boys will be Boys” and other Bullshite Social Conditioning
Changing that one phrase will be a start, but certainly not the entire project. The misogyny hard coded into our patriarchal society won’t go away by itself. “when she was 7, a boy pushed her on the playground she fell headfirst into the dirt and came up with a mouthful
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Elliot Rodger and illusions of nuance
The Arbourist: Glosswatch dispels the illusions growing around the murders in Santa Barbra Too Good not to reblog. Originally posted on glosswatch: Misogyny is not particularly nuanced. It has a long history and manifests itself in different ways across different cultures, but essentially it’s always the same: hating women, viewing them as
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Elliot Rodger And Men Who Hate Women
The Arbourist: Watch in the comments section as dudes bring out gems “like Not All Men are Like That” and “MRA’s are about Equality not Misogyny”. All to the riff of that Women are somehow responsible for the problems of Men. Originally posted on The Belle Jar: TW for violence
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Can We Trust Scientists?
Damn right we can, as long the evidence they present present the most accurate view of reality. Religious claims do not do a good job of describing the reality we live in, they are inaccurate, rely on hearsay and reflect an ignorant and scared world view. Filed under: Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Minute Physics – How to See Without Glasses
As a bespectacled individual, I was hoping for something a little more high tech. 🙂 On the upside, it is good to know when you’re in a pinch. Filed under: Science Tagged: How to See Without Glasses, Minute Physics, Physics, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Les Miserables
Some productions should not leave the stage. Hollywood…just…stop…please… Filed under: Music Tagged: Cinema Sins, Les Miserables, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Turkish Canaries – Capitalism Doing What it Does Best
The general capitalist framework sets up people and resources for exploitation. Without a strong social democratic counterweight to capitalist exploitation we necessarily get the tragic results as exemplified by the mine disaster in Soma, Turkey. “Turkish police are investigating 18 people, including mining company executives and personnel, as part of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Climate Change – Bill Moyers and David Suzuki
Why is it that we bow down before the market? It is not a fundamental force of nature, yet we in society are instructed to think of it as such. Filed under: Politics, Science Tagged: Bill Moyers, Climate Change, David Suzuki, Economics
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