I’ve never seen an episode of the West Wing, but I would have liked to been there for the episode that has this gem of clip contained within it. I’ve posted this before, but I like it so *poof* here it is again showing exactly why religion, without question, needs to be kept out of […]
Author: The Arbourist
Dead Wild Roses: The Friday Classic Music Interlude – Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” – 4th Movement.
Dvorak brings his symphony to a majestic close. In two parts due to youtube length limitations. Like the first movement, the fourth begins not with its main theme but with an introduction. 00:00:47 23. The main theme: an imposing march, introduced by trumpets and trombones, with timpani 00:00:48 24. The main theme, part two. A […]
Dead Wild Roses: Media Lens on How Misinformation Rules the Airwaves.
“Nothing is free.” Remember that golden nugget of advice given back when you were young? Of course you do, it made you wary of deals that seemed just perfect and produced nothing but unicorns and butterflies and the separation of you and your money once you made the agreement with the con artist in […]
Dead Wild Roses: Schrödinger’s Rapist – A guide for the Men.
This is a compete repost of what guest blogger Starling on Shapely Prose, says about our rape culture and how it works for the people who have no choice but to live within its confines. This is a “S2″ moment, as in Sit the frack down and Shut the frack up. This is how […]
Dead Wild Roses: Potholer54 – DMCA’ed but Still fighing the Creationist Stupid on Youtube.
When you have nothing to refute the truth, you DMCA on youtube. This video might not be up long, view it while you can.
Filed under: Religion Tagged: Creationist Fail, Dispellling Creationist Nonsense, DMCA, PotHoler54, Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Charity?
Well, not charity in the most traditional sense of the word, but in the sense of regarding arguing with people about ideas and reaching a conclusion or at least more of a mutual understanding of what the other is saying. Inauspiciously, this rarely seems to happen on the internet, as the sectarian nature of […]
Dead Wild Roses: Rational Warrior’s Anti-Science Throwdown – NSFW
I am one for reasoned debate, but sometimes its nice change things up with a little musical rhetoric. *TW for language. Filed under: Music Tagged: Anti-Science Rationalist throwdown, Rational Warrior, Religion
Dead Wild Roses: The Friday Classical Music Interlude – Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” – 3rd Movement.
Fantastic movement, keeps you on the edge of your seat. Follow along with some of the musical highlights. 1. Dvorak, Beethoven, and the Scherzo. Dvorak purposely confuses the listener’s expectations. 00:01:54 2. Using a little fanfare, Dvorak further builds up expectation before revealing the main theme. 00:00:21 3. When the theme is revealed, we find […]
Dead Wild Roses: Oh Nom Nom Nom Nom! – A super massive blackhole devours a nearby star.
If was actually good at mathematics, I think I would have been an Astrophysicist. They have such amazing questions to work on.
Filed under: Science Tagged: Astrophysics, Black Hole, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Happiness, Equality and Security – The True Measures of a Society; not GDP.
The ongoing media campaign to make the economy the monofocus of our societies continues on unabated. Do almost any news search and you will see economic principles overlaid and tied to the idea that somehow they are related to how healthy and how “good” a society actually is. Economic health is but one part […]
Dead Wild Roses: Rape in the Bible – An easy guide.
Ah, the moral paragon that the bible claims to be, yet not one Commandment such as “thou shall not rape”… Pretty easy for an all knowing, all powerful being to foresee no? Apparently not.
Filed under: Religion Tagged: biblical stup…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Thunderf00t – Why go to chruch?
Tfoot has been on a roll as of late, another quick gem of a video from him explaining the possible evolutionary and societal benefits of believing in magic.
Filed under: Religion Tagged: Church, Evolution, Social Psychology, Thunderf00t
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Objective Morality? – Not the christain god, not ever.
The problem with making a reasonable argument is that it takes time and patience to construct properly. Nonstampcollector makes a great video showing exactly how unonbjective the christian god actually is. Guaranteed to make the religious cringe as they face contradiction after contradiction, and precisely why the video appears on this blog. Filed under: Religion […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Heaven’s Promise, christian fools.
One of the problems with christianity (and other made up bullshite) is that if given the time to actually think about what believing in it actually entails, you can easily end up among the growing ranks of the unwashed atheist hoard. The problem is squaring with what you been told with what actually is. If […]
Dead Wild Roses: Lewis Lapham – 9/11 Revisited, mythology exposed.
The stories woven by official narratives often have little to with the reality of the situation. Lewis Lapham, editorially in Harper’s Magazine, was bold enough to contradict the official version of events. He lost subscribers, was labelled “unamerican” and worse, for his views. Listen to what he has to say as we near the approved […]
Dead Wild Roses: Trolling the Evangelical Christians
Filed under: Humour Tagged: . Trolling, Christianity, Funny
Dead Wild Roses: The Friday Classical Music Interlude – Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” – 2nd Movement.
I apologize for switching orchestras, but the original had parts missing so we had to go to this edition of the symphony. Filed under: Music Tagged: Dvorak Symphony No.9 – “From the New World”, Friday Classical Music Interlude
Dead Wild Roses: The Ayn Rand Six-Step – Objective Fail, Again.
The objectivist camp suffers another blow as parodied by this fine article by John Atcheson. Reprinted here for because a good objectivist smackdown is always welcome at DWR. Thanks to Ben Hoffman for bringing this article to my attention. Published on Friday, September 2, 2011 by CommonDreams.org Atlas Mugged: The Ayn Rand Six Step by […]
Dead Wild Roses: Fouling Low Earth Orbit – Our Shortsighted Species Stumbles Onward
Early primate hunters nearly initiated their own extinction by using the advanced technology of the time to stress their environment and hunt at unsustainable levels. At one time, our future rested on less than 20,000 individuals world wide. Luckily we did not die off completely and came to flourish and expand across the globe. Despite […]
Dead Wild Roses: Waffle King Obama Shits on Environment – Big Business Cheers.
Hope and Change. Neither apply to the appallingly right-centre Obama administration. Unless of course you count change for the worse: “President Barack Obama is sacking a controversial proposed regulation tightening government smog standards, bowing to the demands of congressional Republicans and some business leaders.” Oh fantastic, because business has its knickers in a twist and […]