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
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Dead 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
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Holidy Musical Interlude – Drinking White Wine in the Sun
Tim Minchin’s take on the whole xmas affair resonates with me. The song is about what is important during the holidays and life. The song also takes to rubbing some well deserved soot into the eye of organized delusional behaviour – aka – christianity. Have a safe and wonderful holiday
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender Roles in Western Society
Another bit of well crafted insight into some of the subtle rules that govern our society. Filed under: Education Tagged: Gender binary, Gender Roles, Men, Patriarchy, Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Do you listen to Children?
Are we getting children the help they need? There is a nefarious double bind that we put children in that makes it very hard for them to be heard. “Children should remain silent, and they are ‘good’ when they’re quiet, but ‘bad’ when they are not, because they are disturbing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA – The CBC Edmonton Food Bank Turkey Drive
Hello gentle readers. It is the holiday season and the Edmonton Food Bank needs our help. 🙂 Go to the CBC Turkey Drive to donate a bird for $25 dollars and feed a family this year, not much time is left as the drive is over at the end
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Thought on Spanking your Child…
“When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Building Trust – Sliding Door Moments
Building a good relationship doesn’t happen in an instant. The good relationship requires a stream of small, often seemingly inconsequential, choices that build attunement empathy and sensitivity to your partner’s (and yours) need. John Gottman describes the process and also touches on the idea the CL-Alt which can start a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stewart vs. O’Reilly – The Great Debate
Great from the opening statement forward. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Bill O’Reilly, Debate, Jon Stewart
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “I Hate Teasing Whores” – Rise, Red Pen of Justice, Rise.
Oh the Kitteh Teasing! This is one of those cases where all the hard work has been done for me. The train has wrecked, the roller coaster has cleanly left the rails, the cat has barfed on the piano. The fail is so densely packed into Matthew’s post that just
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Reactionary Stupidity from Bullshite Mountain
Another ardent believer in free speech, as long as you aren’t calling them on their bullshit, Gnyii has managed to append my last comment on a thread that, as usual with the deluded religious right, is strong with the fetus-fetish. Thus, in the interests of clarity, I’ll republish the last
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: For the Love of a Good Fisking – MRA Stupidity on Display
The problem with discussing issues with MRA’s…. too many to count. But someone took the time to systematically tease out all of the bullshite they tend to spew. Go here to see the MRA screed and the annotations that dismember the silly MRA claims. Filed under: Feminism Tagged:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Everything Your Voice Teacher Says NOT to do.
Singing is not about the notes. Singing is about putting words and sound together into a formless, yet structured package that allows you to express a feeling or sentiment. One aspect of making a performance “come to life” is correctly using the text of the song to express the feeling
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Now why is that so effective?
Let me assure you though, it has nothing to do with patriarchy, the gender binary or any of those things that feminists seem to talk about all the time. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Cultural Norms, Feminsim, Gender binary, Patriarchy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The US Conservative War on Libraries – Oh and those dirty Mexicans too…
Sometimes there are no words for describing the foul airs that somehow passes as conservative “thought”. Just sharing this so you can join me in shaking your head in disbelief. “10. Louisiana official: Close the libraries so those Mexicans can’t learn English; build a jail instead. Most immigration hardliners
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