Good intentions and all that… Filed under: Humour Tagged: Humour, Oversharing
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Dead Wild Roses: White Male Bias – Nope Nope Nope.
The idea that those in control would want media to promote their ideology seems obvious. Let’s examine two helpful charts. Huh, a bias toward white males. What could it mean? Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Media Bias, White Male Washing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – In Case of Emergency Just Add Hot Air.
In the spirit of the holidays we here at DWR are going to go easy (for one week at least) on the religiously deluded, thus today’s disservice is a gift, only for religious emergencies mind you. 🙂 Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Emergency Pope, Humour, The DWR Sunday Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Featuring the CBC Signature Series – G-sharp Minor: The Crone
G-sharp minor is a minor scale based on G♯, consisting of the pitches G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, E, and F♯. Few symphonies are written in G♯ minor; among them are Nikolai Myaskovsky’s 17th Symphony, Christopher Schlegel’s 5th Symphony, and an abandoned work of juvenilia by Marc Blitzstein. Despite the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How Those Who’re Paid to Know, Know The Pentateurch is Historical Fiction
Reblogged from the superstitious naked ape: Let there be no doubt whatsoever, to the Yahwehist – the practicing Jew, the Christian and the Muslim – whose entire religious faith rides E X C L U S I V E L Y on the historical validity of the Pentateuch this quote
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: US Christians led Astray by Republican Party – “Shocking.”
I know, I know. Belief in magic is not really the best way to run anything, but rather than focusing on the silly nature of believing in the Grand Oooga-Booga, lets look at how those in power keep their ‘base’ ignorant and happy to continue to lap up all mendacity
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Quote of the Day – Assata Shakur
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” — Assata Shakur Filed under: History Tagged: DWR Quote of the Day, On Freedom and Oppression
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A wish for the New Year.
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: A New Year’s Wish, Body Image, The Body Shaming Industries, Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Alberta Weather – Gloomy with a Side of Cold
Seeing that yellowish burning orb in the sky would be a nice change of pace right about now. 🙂 Lovely UofA Campus, featuring the roof of SUB and the Education Building in the distance. Filed under: Canada Tagged: Alberta, Gloom, UofA, Weather
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fiona our Holiday Cat :)
It is hard to catch white cat sitting still. It is nearly impossible to catch her sitting still and being photogenic. Fiona and I seem to have beat the odds as I caught her resting on our table minutes before our Solstice Party began; she was inspecting the table cloth
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bell Hooks – On Romance and Violence
“Women reading romances are being encouraged to accept the idea that violence heightens and intensifies sexual pleasure. They are also encouraged to believe that violence is a sign of masculinity and a gesture of male care, that the degree to which a man becomes violently angry corresponds to the intensity
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What if the Centre of the World Changed?
Interesting thought. Discuss. 🙂 Filed under: Social Science Tagged: Norms, Society, Sociolgy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: MRA’s – The Abuser Lobby
“Perpetrators of SA [Sexual Assault] tend to adhere to traditional gender-role stereotypes, especially with respect to the acceptance of male dominance, acceptance of rape-supportive myths, acceptance of interpersonal violence as a means of conflict resolution, and hostility toward women. These beliefs develop at an early age and come from many
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 3 Easy Scales – The Science of Temperature
Never say that we don’t promote edumacation around here at DWR. It’s always important to know when you’re about to expire due to environmental conditions. Filed under: Science Tagged: Happy Science Facts!, Science, Temperature
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Damn, this still gets me *every* time – In Excelsis Deo
The West Wing, ever so often, managed to perfectly capture the crazy paradoxical nature of the human condition. Watch and experience the juxtaposition so masterfully done in this short clip. How can any day be a day of joy when some 20,000 children will die of preventable causes. Oh sure,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Brave Manosphere Warrior intones – How to be a Man!!
It must be the holiday season as it seems that I’ve given the gift of knowledge to an intrepid crusader of the Manosphere. Slow days at work means I can spend time feeding my SIWOTI compulsion. This is Red Pen of Justice material, but in a different format as instead
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: NRA – Fighting for the Right to Slaughter Children in Schools
Unfair? Nah. Filed under: Education, Politics Tagged: Bill Moyers, DWR PSA, gun control, Gun Violence, NRA unreason
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women, Peace, and Security
What a concept eh? Filed under: Feminism Tagged: DWR PSA, Peace, Security, Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Immoral, Unethical Nature of Religion
Late to the party as usual, this mash-up of Sam Harris laying the smack down on christianity is too good not to post. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christian Mythology, How Religion Poisons Everything, Immoral Religious Behaviour, Religion, Sam Harris, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, Uneithical Religious Behaviour
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Monorail Cats!
Vishnu and Fiona are still in the process of acclimatising to each other. It has gotten better, as catured in these pictures. 🙂 Trying to get a picture while keeping the kittehs in their sombre monorail arrangement proved tough to photograph. Darn cats kept on moving, the nerve. The look
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