A couple of feminist quote of the day just for my AVFM friends who might be lurking around in the shadows waiting to explain how oppressed being (usually) white and male is. “Men often react to women’s words – speaking and writing – as if they were acts of violence;
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Dead Wild Roses: When CNN trumps Fox News for Bullshit – Black Holes and Missing Planes.
Hey media friends, did you all just here that slight popping noise? That was my cerebral cortex disconnecting itself from all of its higher functions after viewing this lovely clip on CNN about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. This is what happens when news is cobbled together out of speculation,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Civilization, Capitalism, Consumption – Why stop the Orgy?
I’m glad I’ll be dead when humanity’s collective shit hits the fan. I used to get all wrapped up in debates about Capitalism and the slow motion Seppuku we’re committing. I was genuinely flummoxed when my arguments were characterized as hopelessly naive and that my positions were unfounded vis-a-vis economic
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Send Yourself to Hell
Dark Matter2525 takes on the religious idea that somehow because we have free will their grand ooga-booga is somehow a less terrible entity for creating and sending people to hell. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christianity, DarkMatter2525, Hell, Religion, Send yourself to Hell, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – LOTR – Gandalf’s Lament
I just happen to have the sheet music for this piece. Now I just need to persuade TIO that she’s really an alto, and we’ll be set. Filed under: Music Tagged: Gandalf, Lament, LOTR
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Not Rape Epidemic – Latoya Peterson
Sometimes you just can’t pass up an opportunity to signal boost an important message. Trigger warnings for Rape, Sexual Abuse, Rape Culture Original Essay: The Not Rape Epidemic December 21, 2008 Latoya Peterson 1 Comment *Trigger Warning* Latoya’s Note: So, as promised, here’s the original version of the essay that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Breaking News: Sharp Pencils to be banned in Public Schools
Tragic accidents happen. “A multimillion-dollar lawsuit has been launched by the parents of a student who almost died after being strangled by a lanyard at his school in Bearspaw just west of Calgary.” You don’t sue people for not thinking of every possibility that might happen. If this isn’t the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ram Pressure Stripping – More than close shave.
Now for your astronomical news of the week. The latest from the Hubble telescope. Filed under: Science Tagged: Astronomy, Ram Pressure, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Brussels Sprouts – Numberphile
Yet another reason to be wary of Mathematicians. Filed under: Science Tagged: Brussels Sprouts, Math, Sneaky
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The Ballad of Magellan
Yakko: There once was a man, his name was Magellan. A Portuguese skipper, the girls found him cute. He sailed with five ships to find the East Indies Then come back to Spain with a bounty of loot. The Warners: Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, oh, happy Magellan! Starting your journey with hardly a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How to Influence Teenagers and other People too.
Working in behavioural education means that much of this stuff is old hat for me, but sometimes isn’t as common knowledge as I think it is for others, so lets review some the tricksy-hobbit ways P-sychologists work their magic. We’ll pick up midway though the article: I asked Dahl what
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When Theism Takes a Drubbing
When actual science is involved, WLC loses. Dispensing the boots to the head is Sean Carroll. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Atheism, Debate, Sean Carroll, Theism, WLC
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Scourge of Cinema Sins is also my own.
Wallace, I think you had better stop networking with my own anti-blogging cat Fiona. 🙂 Filed under: Cute Tagged: Cat, Cinema Sins, Cute, Wallace the Cat
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fox News in One Screen Capture.
Funny and scary all at the same time. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Fox News, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: International Women’s Day – Still Far to Go
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Telling Stories – Turtle Style
I’m not sure how much longer I can hold on to my introverts card as the membership committee takes a dim view of many of the activities I quite deeply enjoy doing. One of the renegade activities I partake in is running a role playing campaign in a fantasy world
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Our Mendacious Media – The Conflict in Venezuela
This article from counterpunch nails whats is wrong with how news is reported here in North America and also give a much different picture of what is going on in Venezuela. A big thanks to Mark Weisbrot for getting the down and dirty on events happening in South America. The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA – We need Feminism because…
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: University Advice: Never forget than boys and girls can never just be friends.
Ever wonder what it’s like being female and living through what women are expected to deal with? A small peek into some of the happenings in the grand adventure of being human and female all at the same time. “When I was seventeen and preparing to leave for university, my
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: ‘Superweed’ Invaison – Agricultural Woes
What is profitable. What is right. Two categories that, if drawing a Venn Diagram, seem to overlap less and less these days: case in point the manufacture and use of genetically modified seeds produced by the Monsanto corporation. Back in 1990 the so called ’round-up ready’ crops came into being,
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