I’d like to make the Disservice your point of contact for identifying and mercilessly mocking all of the whigged-out religious tom-foolery that exists out there. The idea that a cloth has the power to cure cancer is ludicrous on its own. Worse, mated with crass commercialism that some churches have
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Dead Wild Roses: Ayn Rand – Blueprints for a Feudal Society
Most of what Rand has to say about economics and politics is complete bunk. The idea that we should not restrict the wealthy classes in their endeavours strikes me as the fast forward button on the decline of Western Civilization. Altruism and empathy are the qualities that will save our
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude: Stephen Malinowski at TED – Behind the Music Animation
We often host Mr.Malinowski’s work here on the Friday Musical Interlude. The musical animation he produces has been his life’s work and has brought it to the next level as he brings his digital animations to live performances. Note in this video that he is using an analog device to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canada, with Women on Abortion
Steven Harper really enjoys floating trial balloons through his back benches. Another preemptive volley from the <a href=”http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2013/02/power-politics-ballot-box-question-187.html”>western conservative black hole of politics</a>has made it the media. The poll, of course, has been skewed by the screwball forced birth advocating religious right in Canada so ignore the results. However,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The US Military – Fumbling Toward Accountablitly
The military, like any defined group in society, has a distinct set of extrinsic and intrinsic operational guidelines. Misogyny is still rather prevalent in the system as an article from wired.com points out: “The Pentagon has talked a lot about putting a stop to sexual abuse and harassment in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Forced Birth Advocates – Anti-Woman all the Time
It is nice when the anti-woman, fetus-fetish brigade starts getting worked up. The thin veil of “protecting life” is torn away leaving only the desperate misogyny that is so typical of the anti-choice zealots. This from the Feel that pro-life love! Tumblr. damnsoprochoice: jojobear11: damnsoprochoice: jojobear11: Lol, people who think
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Competition…
Internet wisdom is notoriously hard to find. When you find it, share it. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Humour-ish, Internet Wisdom
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hypothetical Near Birth Abortions – Why Pro-Life is *always* wrong.
Ah yes, the perennially wrong anti-choice, forced birth lobby loses again, and again and again. You never get to ignore the bodily autonomy of women and this comment from Pharyngula details precisely why. “I’ll tell you why I hate those hypothetical near-birth abortion scenarios. It’s not that they’re stupid, or
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Transformative Power of Classical Music
A bit of a different tack today on the Sunday Disservice, but I think you’ll like what you see. One of the selling points of religious belief is the “spiritual-transcendental” angle; being a part of something that is bigger than you and yet speaks to you in a very
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Advertising and the Superbowl – Rant
Coming to work today I was listening to the CBC morning news there was the usual doom and gloom, but what was remarkable was the amount of time devoted to telling Canadians about how awesome the commercials were going to be for the Superbowl and the lengths people were
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: I like it when Physics answers the “Big Questions” – Immovalble Objects and Unstoppable Forces
No preamble necessary, watch and learn folks. 🙂 Filed under: Education, Science Tagged: Immovable Objects, Physics, Science, Unstoppable Forces
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach, Goldberg Variations, Variation 5, BWV 988
This is the first of the hand-crossing, two-part variations. It is in 3/4 time. A rapid melodic line written predominantly in sixteenth notes is accompanied by another melody with longer note values, which features very wide leaps: Filed under: Music Tagged: Bach, Goldberg Variations Variation 5 BWV 988, The DWR
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ronald Wright – On How We Lose it All.
Capitalism is all find and dandy, until you run out of people and resources to exploit. But, let’s let Ronald Wright do the talking from his book “What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order,” on this one. “The experience of a relatively easy 500 years of expansion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Common Sense of Cavemen – Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Krauss makes an interesting point during this video about how we construct the reality around us. Consider the epistemological advantages of finding ideas and theories that fit the reality of the situation, as opposed to trying to shoehorn reality into our limited perception. Having all the answers is a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mansplaining, who knew there was a tumblr?
Thank goodness those of us with fluffy pink ladybrainz have access to the cogent Manly-Man opinions of men. Go to the tumblr: Laugh, grimace, get angry, and repeat. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Mansplaining
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Fetus is Not A Person, So Sayeth the Catholic Church
Well. I’m glad to see the Catlicks coming around on an important issue to women and their rights. This is an object lesson for the deluded pro-life movement. Your fetus worshipping is useful for whipping up the frenzy and getting people all frothy, but when serious issues come its time
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Some People Just Want to Watch the World Burn
It starts here, with THIS! Filed under: Humour Tagged: Humour
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disserivce – Preaching to the Converted
Why do we do what we do here at DWR? What can we offer to the stalwartly religious that happen on this atheistic nook of cyberspace? Not very much, some would opine, because people’s minds are made up and that is that. Searching through my video subscriptions I found this
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Historical Notions – Women’s Rights to Choose.
Shall we wake up to some historical notions? Has history ever been kind to women? The short answer is no. Why? Because, Patriarchy. Today is not for learning about 101 level feminism. Today is calling down from pulpit the rage and the anger against the systematic oppression of women in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA Saturday – Men should be offended.
Filed under: Feminism Tagged: DWR PSA Satruday, Men, Rape, Violence
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