The US has a funny notion of what is in its ‘backyard’. It would be really wonderful if the citizens of the US would decry the economic terrorism being carried out on their behalf. “The success of Chávez and Maduro’s governments in reducing poverty and inequality in Venezuela and
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Dead Wild Roses: Treat Believers with Kindness, not Contempt
A slightly different tone from the usual DWR Sunday Disservice, but an important insight into the value of a change of contextual frame for those still mired in religion. AwayPoint Decent people don’t jeer at others who are functioning poorly in some part of life. With religious belief holding such
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – That’s Quite the Kill Order.
Competing for the religion of ‘peace’ I see…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Mandelbrot Set
Don’t like math, but I do love what you can do with it. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Romantic Interlude – The Tannhäuser Overture
Wagner’s middle stage output began with Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman, 1843), followed by Tannhäuser (1845) and Lohengrin (1850). These three operas are sometimes referred to as Wagner’s “romantic operas”.[154] They reinforced the reputation, among the public in Germany and beyond, that Wagner had begun to establish with Rienzi.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Venezuela and the American Body Politic
American foreign policy seems to be carefully insulated from the majority of the American population. I’m thinking that, outside the respective frenzied political bases, the general populace has little or no taste for international misadventures and the inevitable blowback that accompanies imperial meddling in the affairs of other states. Yet
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Destabilizing Venezuela – John Pilger
It doesn’t really matter who is at the helm in the US, the foreign policy remains the same. Central/South America has been deemed within the sphere of influence of the United States and states resisting vassal status are punished for their crimes. I’m guilty of not looking past the news
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tidying Up is Not Joyful But Another Misuse of Eastern Ideas – Amy Olberding
I have not seen any episodes of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. And for me, that is quite shocking as I am very much a fan of decluttered, organized living. I say ‘fan’ because in reality I’m stuffed into a small house that has entirely too much stuff and most
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Beethoven’s Third Symphony – Third and Forth Movements
The theme of triumphal music continues here at DWR.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Banch-Tarski Paradox – 30 Minutes of Deliciously Broken Brain.
This is great stuff.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Signal Boosting – Toxic Trans: The Strange Case of Morgane Ogre and the B.C. NDP.
by Jonathon Kneeland “Morgane Oger is the Vice President of the now ruling British Columbia New Democratic Party. The BC NDP is your typical left of centre political party. They have an ambitious social justice platform, spend most of their time letting us know how virtuous they are by claiming
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Canadian National Convey Protest – I Continue to Scratch My Head.
Sometimes, it seems, my fellow Albertans can be quite the confused lot. Actually no, that is wrong; we are not confused, just bi-polar. In Alberta have this curious duality the runs the course of our electoral politics. We want to be rugged, independent, self-made individuals with no interference from
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Last McSupper
Because why not?
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Math – The Josephus Problem
Not a big fan of math, but it’s certainly neat to watch the thought processes.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Beethoven’s 5th, Third & Fourth Movement.
Rousing finales are a continuation of the theme started last week with the excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s 4th symphony. Few bring it home as grandly and as majestically as Beethoven does.
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