The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi’s best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. The texture of each concerto is varied, each resembling its respective season. For example, “Winter” is peppered with […]
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Dead Wild Roses: The Ledge – Movies I want to see.
Hmmm… a mainstream movie that has an atheist hero? What next? A politician that does not have to believe in fairy tales to be elected? Filed under: Media Tagged: Atheism, Movies, The Ledge
Dead Wild Roses: Crazy MRA’s in action…now annotated for clarirty!
The Male Rights Activists are a sad counter-current to the feminist movement of today. The MRA contingent seems mostly to promote nuclear grade stupidity, misogyny and ignorance; all while magically claiming that they are the oppressed class. The seismic levels of projection and butthurt reverberate from places like The Spearhead (I will not link directly […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Apple Fail Continues – Video Blocking.
Apple, expensive, feature limited but very, very, trendy once again has bitter medicine in store for its great herd of sheeple who are thinking differently all together. “Technology that could block iPhones from recording videos of concerts is generating a mix of opinions within the Canadian music industry. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published […]
Dead Wild Roses: To The Last Drop – Documentary on Alberta Tar Sands
Curious about the issues surrounding the Tar Sands of Alberta? Filed under: Education Tagged: Alberta, Oil, Tar Sands
Dead Wild Roses: 300 – This is…disturbing.
I have long filed the 300 under the category of movies that I like. I enjoyed the theme of the many versus the few and of course the super slow motion battle sequences that make killing look like its superawesome cool. http://youtu.be/VW4d3Kukcu8 Superawesomeness aside though I did not think too much of the rest of […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Loving God, Loving Psychopath
When you break down what it would actually mean to be a deity, or to have absolute power and control over another one can start to appreciate the ghastly way in which events and decisions can go wrong. Unchecked power can only lead to psychopathy, and that is precisely the power so many of the […]
Dead Wild Roses: WikiLeaks – What Media Should be Like
Upset about troop movements and diplomatic cables being exposed to the public? Accountability and public oversight is *such* a pain. Notice how much coverage Wikileaks has been receiving from the media as of late, close to zero-ish, by my accounting and it is not accidental. Reporting actual news and happenings is dangerous and requires […]
Dead Wild Roses: Subnormality – Goats
A happy wish of green goatishness to you.
Filed under: Education, Humour Tagged: So Mature!, Subnormality
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anti-Vaccination Cranks – Lies & Deceit
Watch the intensely stupid anti-vax loonery in full bloom as they make the case for exposing your newborns to disease, because if their bodies “don’t want it” they simply won’t get sick. Their next show is on how Big Science has fooled us into believing that the earth is round… Filed under: Medicine, Science […]
Dead Wild Roses: Asbestos – Canadian Pride!(?)
It is comforting to see that our financial myopia extends to the production and export of asbestos. If the tarsands and the associated environmental degradation is a slam dunk for Canada, for then exporting asbestos should hardly be on the radar. “Canada won the fight, for at least another two years, to keep asbestos […]
Dead Wild Roses: 5 Things Atheists have Wrong About Religion?
Responding to criticism and arguing coherently are the hallmarks of reasonable, mature debate. Browsing the articles on Alternet my attention was drawn to the article that shares the same moniker as this post, minus the question mark. I was hoping for some meaty, thought-provoking arguments by Scofield. I was disappointed. The 5 points […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Good without god
We can be good without consulting the godhead of your choice. Qualia Soup makes an engaging look at morality and religion.
Filed under: Education, Religion, Science Tagged: Morallity, Qualia Soup, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: RSA – Animate – Choice
Within structural systems there is great pressure to conform, in Capitalism is not an exception.
Filed under: Politics Tagged: Capitalism, Choice, RSA Cognitive Media, Social Change
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Another year over – end of school melancholy
Recent cutbacks have curbed my employment at the school that I teach in. So today was my last day. Some days you feel like a song. Today I feel like this… Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Anecdata, Endings, Loss, School Days
Dead Wild Roses: Evolution, Not A Controversy
Evidence from youtube, makes a concise movie about Evolution and Intelligent Design.
Filed under: Science Tagged: Evolution, Science, Teach the Controversy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Global Capital – Our enemy, our friend?
From a recent interview of Noam Chomsky by Michael Learner – ML: […]What path is rational for a movement seeking to build a world of environmental sanity, social justice, and peace, yet facing such a sophisticated, powerful, and well-organized social order? NC: […]At the moment we can’t realistically talk about challenging global capital, because the […]
Dead Wild Roses: Extinguishing Women’s Rights – One State at a Time.
Liberty in the land of the brave, and the home of the free seems to be missing a clause somewhere because liberty is not really working well for women, especially if looking for access to reproductive health services such as abortion. The Alternet article lists the top 10 states where Abortion is virtually illegal. […]
Dead Wild Roses: Quote of the Day – The Spirit Level – Equality
Just picking up the Spirit Level again, and finding great stuff to share. As a way of creating a more egalitarian society, employee ownership and control have many advantages. First, it enables a process of social emancipation as people become members of a team. Second, it puts the scale of earning differentials ultimately under […]
Dead Wild Roses: Exploiting the Proletariat – Business as Usual in the US.
Sometimes the Russian Television network has some good stories. By good stories I mean, news articles that would never seen the light of day within the media disciplined airwaves of the U.S. According the the RT report, US workers are working harder for less and less every year, and funny, business has never been better […]