The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 220,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 4 years for that many people to see it. Your
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Dead Wild Roses: Thought for the New Year – Let’s end Prostitution
The words are Susan Brownmiller’s. Her noble goal, to end the exploitation of women – “But my horror at the idea of legalize prostitution is not that it doesn’t work as a rape deterrent, but that it institutionalizes the concept that it is a man’s monetary right, if not his
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: You made it. Happy New Year.
It doesn’t matter who you are. You gave your best, your worst and everything in between. Congratulate yourself for making it to here, prevailing or failing with your challenges. It doesn’t matter who you are. You are a worthy person and deserve to celebrate this one time, this one
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Force Birth Advocacy – Anti-Woman all the Time
Hey folks, by now I think you are aware of my positions on pretty much every contentious issue that comes down the pipe. We here at DWR regularly lay waste to the shitty anti-choice arguments that cross our path. We take the time to deconstruct the bullcookery and show
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Imagine No Religion 3 – In Canada no less.
I’m not much for advertising, but given that it is a good cause I’ll add my small voice to the ever growing atheist chorus and help promote this event. Good heavens, I might even go to this event as its in my country and only one province away. Anyhow, if
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gang Rape – Women’s Fear – Everyone’s Fear
The fear women live with everyday manifested itself in one of the most horrific ways in New Dehli. “The woman and a male friend, who have not been identified, were on a bus in New Delhi after watching a film on the evening of Dec. 16 when they were
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Westboro Baptist Church – Doing it wrong…
To our WBC friends, some sage advice from Betty Bowers. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Betty Bowers, Christianity, Hate, Religion, sage advice, WBC
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: No Sin, No Problem? – DarkMatter2525
Ah, christians and their fairy tales. Consider a world without sin – I’m pretty sure god didn’t. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Adam, Christianity, DarkMatter2525, Eve, god, Religion, sin
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: In Excelsis Deo – The West Wing
Happy Holidays Everyone. Take care of those around you, make some more memories, and remember those who shared in your joy that have passed on. Best wishes from everyone here at DWR. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: DWR Holiday Message, In Excelsis Deo, The West Wing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bill Moyers: Remember the Victims
As far as I am concerned, the NRA needs to pack its bags and go away. Bill Moyers says it better than I could right now. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Bill Moyers, Gun Violence, Remember the Victims
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The WAR on Christmas
This just in from Betty Bowers, the war on Christmas is coming to a retail location near you! Filed under: Religion Tagged: Betty Bowers, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Billy O’ and Mr.Deity at Odds!
I never would have though it possible, but yet it happened. Bill gets Mr.Deity mad. Agreeing with Bill is usually disagreeable to the sane, but on this one I’m torn. I’d hate to sully philosophy’s reputation. Filed under: Atheism, Humour Tagged: Christianity, Humour, Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Mozart Flute Quartet
We have not had a visualization in awhile so lets take a look at the first movement of Mozart’s Flute Quartet in C Major, K. 285b, performed by American Baroque, with a scrolling bar-graph score. Filed under: Music Tagged: Flute Quartet in C major K. 285b 1st mvt. Allegro, Mozart,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Media Gender Gap
The red pen of justice is wiggling, but I’ve run out of time. We’ll make do with this rage building infographic while I see if I can scrape some time together during the week to compose the piece that is swirling in my brain. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Gender,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Stability” – You’d be surpirsed what it trumps.
Democracy, human rights, humanitarian intervention all fall at the wayside when it comes to the West supporting “stability” in the Middle East. We wonder why the residents are so pissed off at us and cheer when bad things happen to the West. I’m guessing it has a little something
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Evidence in Action – Plug your ears now Anti-Choice Advocates.
The Guttmacher Institute is all about giving women the rights to control their reproductive future and of course their bodies. The pro-woman, pro-choice position is based on evidence and facts that no amount of prayer, handwaving or appeals to emotion can over come. Being that your position(my beloved anti-choicers) is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mendacity, thy name is Fox News
Deceptive, misleading and manipulative. That would be the Faux News in a nutshell. Liberal viewer carefully dissects the bullcookery for your viewing pleasure. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Faux News Fail, Fox News Follies, Liberal Viewer, Media
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Reducing Abortion Rate – Women Focus Reproductive Care
Brain Trauma inducing thought of the day: By trusting women and giving them control of their reproductive future, less unplanned pregnancies and less abortions will occur. [tick tick tick….head asplodes….] I know, how crazy is that? Women…you know the ones that have children…are in the best position to decide whether
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Immoral Atheists?
It is funny how often this claim comes up when engaging with the godbaggy crowd. You would think, seeing the historical record of authoritarian rule, that blindly following the dictates would not be a celebrated accomplishment. Potholer54 takes a hard look at this claim and provides a solid factual argument
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Grand New Low for Pro-Life sites equating Abortion to Sandyhook Elementary Victims
Hypocrisy is flowing from the anti-choice sites like turds from a overfull diaper. The idea that they are somehow committed to the preservation of life is the weapons-grade bullshite that religious thinking actively promotes. The pious fucks are equating abortion to the recent mass murder at Sandyhook Elementary School. How
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