Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day. Just finished singing this in choir, great piece and as usual, the tenor part is the hardest.. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Choral Music, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
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Dead Wild Roses: Removing any doubt from the Western Failure in Afghanistan – Women still not people.
Democracy promotion abroad. Funny how it seem to only happen in locals of geopolitical importance. I’m sure we’ll get around to distributing freedom for everyone eventually. Afghanistan, on the other hand, is geopolitically important to the West for possible energy reserves and pipe lines that could be a significant
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hard Rock – Hallelujah
We need more of this in our music scene because frankly, the omnipresent bland radio pop (A big unthankyou to CBC radio 2 for adding more of this soul withering drivel to my listening day) bores the everliving fuck out of me. So hit me with some hard rock hallelujah
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Spot the Problem?
Of course, it could just be me… Filed under: International Affairs, Social Science Tagged: Helpful Infographics, Public Sector, USA
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christians, getting it right.
Okay, religion might not poison everything. Christians attend a gay pride event apologizing for the crummy behaviour of many of their churches. And the response… Thanks Buzzfeed for a little pick me up today. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Christians getting it right, Humanity, It ain’t all bad
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Iron Thingie 3 – The Wrap Up (-ish).
I’m not much for the Hollywood movie-culture scene. Either I’m getting to old or too smart for the usual smarm of what Hollywood has to offer; and on that note I’d like to think of my self in the later rather than the former category. Ironic self-delusion aside, pop
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Mr.Deity & the New Testament
The bible isn’t all bad. Just mostly. 🙂 Video ends 5 minutes ish. The rest is US political meandering. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christianity, Mr.Deity, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ya Gotta Pay to Play – Money and Private Interests vs. American Democracy
What is democracy about these days? Looking to the North American model to the south of Canada, one begins to worry that idea of responsible, accountable government is a sadly antiquated notion. Bill Moyers and his guests detail what is happening in Washington. Revolving doors, “dark” money, influence peddling –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ice Balls – Lake Michigan
This happened in February of this year on Lake Michigan. “Weighing in at up to 50 pounds (22 kilograms) each, the ice spheres are a winter weather phenomenon resulting from wind and wave action along the shore, according to reporting by NASA‘s Earth Science Picture of the Day. Small fragments
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Still the Good Guys? – Oh, and God is Good.
Sometimes the most basic of points are the most effective. Join Superman and Batman as they fight evil, god style! Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Christianity, DarkMatter2525, god is good!, How Religion Poisons Everything, Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: In Which I Find KinShip with Foamy the Squirrel
I’ll just let Foamy do the talking..:) Yes, and you people know who you are…the positive ones…I see you scuttling toward the back. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Foamy the Squirrel, Humour, In Praise of being Critical
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Like the Earth? Thank a Black Hole
I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for popular astronomy shows. How amazingly small and insignificant our place is in the Universe is always humbles me when I am reminded of the fact. It is a humility I wish the religious minded among us could understand, instead of wasting time and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Welcome to the Friend Zone – Definitions
Just in case you were not clear on what the friend zone is. Many thanks to Angels and Angles for the definition. —— As defined by urban dictionary, the friendzone is… “When you are expected to support a girl you really like while she searches for a smarter, richer, and more
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Failures of Christian Apologetics – Absolute Truth
It is nice to see Anti Citizen X set the record straight when the religious attempt to cloud the waters with their babble. Need the arguments to subdue an “absolute truther” here they be. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Absolute Truth, Epistemology, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Creepy White Guys – Male Privilege on Display
The first step to understanding privilege is recognizing the various forms and flavours it comes in. If you happen to be Asian and female, well, the fun(?) doubles as you get to deal with not only the misogyny, but the racism as well. Woo-haa! (Go to the tumblr Creepy White
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bolero
Love it it or hate it, Bolero is a fine piece of music. I try and post work that make me stop what I’m doing and just listen. This performance by Hong Kong’s Orchestra did just that. Enjoy 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Bolero, Flash Mob, The DWR Friday
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Congress is Failing – It’s the Republicans, Stupid.
Bill Moyers almost always has interesting guests and topics of discussion. The topic of this video is why the American Congress has been so ineffectual as of late(?). A long view, but interesting none the less. Filed under: Politics Tagged: American Politics, Bill Moyers, Congress Fail, Republicans
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Empty Space?
The more I learn about Quantum Mechanics the more interested I become. The counter-intuitive nature of how the fundamental particles operate requires reliance on the scientific method, there is no other way that we could be making these discoveries (I’m looking at you religion). Enjoy learning about how empty
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: There Is No Laser Removal For That – Your Digital Tattoo
Yet another reminder about the permanence of your digital comings and goings. Some of the reasons mentioned here are why I choose to blog under a pseudonym 🙂 Filed under: Internet, Technology and Computers Tagged: idenity protection, Online Presence, the interwebs
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Christian Apologists
It would be easier if the religious would just admit the one fact the lies at the root of their belief system – “facts don’t matter”. Once we shove that sideways down their craw, unravelling the rest of the bullshite will quickly unravel. A good place to start that sort
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