Since Sunday was Darwin’s birthday, the Sunday Disservice was more academic and celebratory fitting the occasion. Here is the video I would have posted if it was a regular Disservice. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Religion, Religious Porn, Thunderf00t, Warm Fuzzies
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Dead Wild Roses: 300k Page Views – DWR Soldiers on!
Oh, the pretty lights! DWR Smashes the 300,000 views barrier! Woo! Dead Wild Roses has recorded 300k hits, well actually 306k as of Saturday. That is roughly 500 unique views per day and inching ever upwards. Thank you my fair readership for your attention to my humble (and sometimes not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 40 Days of Fail. Anti-Choice Protesters Choose Not to Defend their ‘Loving God’.
I think the anti-choicer’s irony meters broke when confronted with the reality of their bloodthirsty sky daddy. The always controversial religious antagonist is back with another video displaying putrefaction known as religious morality. Filed under: Ethics, Feminism, Religion Tagged: 40 days of fail, Abortion, Anti-Choice Zealotry, christian fail on
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disserivce – Happy Darwin Day!
Darwin Day is a global celebration of science and reason held on or around Feb. 12, the birthday anniversary of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. In this episode of the Disservice we dispense with the direct god-bothering and present a BBC documentary on Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. It is important to recognize
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Science? – I love Science, Brian Greene
Gaining a better understanding of the reality which we inhabit aka doing Science. Brian Greene takes us on a light, generalist cosmological journey. Enjoy. Filed under: Education, Science Tagged: Big Bang, Brian Greene, Cosmology, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Battlestar Galactica Passacaglia
The last for awhile from the Bear McCrary and the Battlestar Galactica series. Passacagilia contains one of my favourite motifs right now. I will include both the string and piano version, as I am slowly working on music. It is quite past my level (alternating 6th’s quad chords!) but this
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Where the Church Rules Women Die – No Access to Safe Abortions in the Philippines
Sorry, god mandates a needless death for you, have a nice day… The story is almost always the same. Worship the christian-sky daddy and women become second class citizens who get to die because ‘abortion is a sin’. In the video the dude from the ‘health department’ mentions the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canada Marginalization of The First Nations, our Specialty
Seven-year-old Ferlin Iahtal lies in his home-made bunk bed in his home in Attawapiskat on Dec. 17. Twenty-one people live in the house that has plastic on the ceilings to stop water leaks. Canada’s active neglect of the First Nations continues. Under the heavy mantle of the oppressive Harper regime
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion – Safe and Necessary
Sometimes there is a absence of reasonable discussion when it comes to the topic of abortion. The lack of solid empirical grounding for arguments leads to some rather wild and wooly debates. The Guttmacher institute has a new section called “Are you in the Know?” about women’s health and abortion.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Right Wing Media – The Smear Machine
It is amazing that fox news can get away with such an amazing amount of mendacity and still function. I wonder how long a similar station broadcasting from a different point of view would last on the air waves. Liberal Viewer catches Faux News in yet another bald faced
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: My Heart just gurgled – Eating your death – Chicken Wing CupCakes
Overindulgence. How Western Civilization will be remembered. Enjoy it while it lasts. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Chicken Wing Cup Cake, Death Food, Funny, Killing you softly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Religion poisons everything. Never fails.
Sometimes I get asked by the faithful as to why I advocate so strongly against religion. It is hard to know where to start sometimes, but sadly incidents like what is happening in Minnesota at Anoka High School makes it all to easy. Religion promotes intolerance, hatred and bigotry.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – More BSG
The BSG Motif week continues, with the 6/8 Shape of things to come last week, Allegro in 4/4 this week. Bear McCreary works his magic for us again. Love the syncopation in this piece. Filed under: Music Tagged: Allegro, Bear McCreary, BSG, Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Founding Fathers/Founding Principles of the United States Secular, Not Religious
Confirmation bias might be the end of us all. For the zealots who think that the US was founded on anything but secular principles, watch and learn. Filed under: Politics, Religion Tagged: RDF, Religion, Secular Society, Separation of Church and State?, US Constitution, zealots
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How pro-life is really just anti-choice and really, just plain crazy.
Social Conservatism on Display The pro-life position is riddled with contradiction – Republican Rep. Larry Pittman, who was appointed to the District 82 House seat in October, expressed his views in an email sent Wednesday to every member of the General Assembly. […] “We need to make the death penalty a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: White Liberal Guilt – Tom’s Shoes Marketing Strategy
Tom's – Made in China under human unfriendly conditions, oh but you're helping the poor, honest! “There are two reasons for every action. The good reason… and the real reason.” -J.P. Morgan Did you ever want to consume AND feel good about helping others all at the same time?
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminism – Improving the Condition and Status Of Women
Working toward a better future for everyone. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Education, Feminism, Moving toward Equality, Understanding Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Proselytizing for Jeebus – The Real Story
Former Preacher Dan Barker summarizes the ‘good news’ in less than two minuets. How many people would sign up if they were actually served up the truth about christianity as presented by Mr.Barker. I’m guessing that the cognitive dissonance would be too much for most people in the non-gilded form
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Purity Bear to the Rescue!
Damn…posting this straight up make me “feel right” too. Filed under: Humour, Religion Tagged: christian inanity, Humour, Priceless, Purity Bear
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Musical Interlude – The Shape of Things to Come
The Shape of Things to Come theme This theme, also referred to as the “Passacaglia“, “Allegro“, or “Opera House theme“, is one of the few recurring motifs in Battlestar Galactica — along with “Worthy of Survival” — not associated with a particular character or group of characters. Appearing in the
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