Let us take a good look at how free speech and competing idea’s are treated at a American College. You wonder why so many people just roll their eyes when the words American and enlightened are mentioned in the same sentence. What gets me is that these are the supposed
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – On the Prosperity Gospel
How you take the rotten carcass of religion to even a more repugnant level? Mix in the sham-psychology of positive affirmations and the greedy notions of robber baron capitalism. Mix this these foul artifacts together and you have what is known as the Prosperity Gospel. We are not here
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Do We Expand With The Universe? – Minute Physics
Good video, but I just can’t see a cat on a leash. 🙂 Filed under: Science Tagged: 2 mintues of interesting stuff, Expansion of Spacetime, Minute Physics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Foreign Lander
Are juicy harmonies your thing? Try this on for size. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Foreign Lander, Girls Quartet, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
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Just sayn’ Filed under: Education, Humour Tagged: Humour, Perspective
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Chris Hedges on The Empire of Illusion
My summer vacation reading was a sunny little book by Nick Turse called Kill Anything That Moves. I finished the other book I was noshing on, the Age of American Unreason, just after returning from Kaslo and now I’ve started Chris Hedges book, the Empire of Illusion. Turse’s book
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Damsels in Distress: Part 3 – Tropes vs Women
Back with more insightful analysis is Anita Sarkeesian. The idea of but what about the male in distress plot point is dicusses as well as framing the issues within the bounds of our society. I’m still waiting for Drakken to be redone and released, not only does it start
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Crisis of Civilization – Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Uh-oh. One hour and 17minues of important viewing? Hmm… I recommend taking a gander at what Mr.Ahmed has to say as he sheds some light on some of the systematic problems faced by western societies. Enjoy. Filed under: Education, Politics Tagged: Capitalism, Documentary, systematic problems, Systemic Causes, The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quote of the Day – Chris Hedges and the Empire of Illusion
“We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – What Scares the Religious.
Ah yes, knowledge and the pursuit of education. Thank you for being so brave Malala. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Limits of Science
Thia simple face bears repeating, especially to the religious minded among us. 🙂 Filed under: Education, Science Tagged: Limits of Science, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Libera Me – Faure Requiem
This is a rerun I know, but after singing it you just have to hear it again. Enjoy folks. Oh, and this is my part that I practiced with the other tenors. I’m sure they hate me by now for pestering them to rehearse with me, but wow did we
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cynical Today? Maybe just a bit.
Light posting week, driving fourteen hours has effectively turned off my synapses. 🙂 Filed under: Politics Tagged: things that vex me
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The American Entitlement Paradox
It makes it easier to run a society when you can get the poor people to fight amongst themselves rather than organize against the real problem. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Class Warfare, funny-sad, US Society
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quote of Day: On Edmonton Rape Apologists…Err…MRA’s
I love that this Anti-Feminist poster in Canada angers so many Feminists. I’m also happy that attention is being called to the increase of false rape allegations. Feminists want “equality”, but when a man is falsely accused of rape…they don’t care, and don’t do anything to help that man. They
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Back From Kaslo – Summer Singing Vacation
Hello everyone, What a restful/hectic week I’ve had over in Kaslo British Columbia as I touristed around Kaslo and participated in the annual choral workshop held in town. This trip was photographically sparse for me, but I managed to take a few pictures of the lake where we had the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Objectification, More than Just Pictures
“It is because society tells us that women are objects, not subjects, that when society is presented with a case of male violence or sexual abuse, everyone looks at it from his point of view: “Oh, he must have been provoked to have done that,” “He was a nice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach, “Little” Fugue in G minor, BWV 578
Fugue in G minor, BWV 578, “Little” (popularly known as the “Little Fugue”), is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach during his years at Arnstadt (1703–1707). It is one of Bach’s best known fugues and has been arranged for other voices, including in an orchestral version
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How Transistors Work – 1veritasium
My ignorance knows no bounds. 🙂 I count myself, after watching this video, just little more in touch with the basic stuffs that makes computer technologies work. Filed under: Education Tagged: Education, Physics, Transistors
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quackery Smack Down on the Australian Broadcasting Network
Chiropractors it is your term to take the sauce and see that the woo you peddle is twaddle and dangerous to people. Filed under: Quackery, Science Tagged: ABC, Chiropractic Woo, Quackery
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