Thanks CBC. Let’s look at the list. Here are some other notable campaign missteps: 1. Romney’s father, George Romney, then governor of Michigan was considered an early favourite over then vice-president Richard Nixon in the 1967 Republican primaries. But Romney’s comment that he had “the greatest brainwashing that anybody can
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Muscial Interlude – Michael Jackson?
This is a little out of the norm for the DWR Friday musical interlude, but what can I say I like the clip it makes me chair dance, so up it goes. Filed under: Music Tagged: Britian’s Got Talent, Chair Dancing, Friday Musical Interlude, Signature
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tropes vs Women – The Mystical Pregnancy
Amazing how a little pregnancy can spice up a show. Hollywood’s depiction of pregnancy, giving birth and the physiological and psychological strains associated with the ordeal are, of course, way off base. On the upside, it makes for a great episode… Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: DWR Feminist Wednesday Feature,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Diablo 3 Review – Pretty Fun, but Pretty Modular
Diablo 3 is an action RPG, in other words, it is one happy dungeon romp after another, always in search of the biggest and brightest loot to make the character of your choice that much more powerful. D3 does a wonderful job at using a variable reinforcement schedule when
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Mechanical Bride
I apologize for the video heavy week we are having. This past weekend was filled with not a lot of sleep and as a result feeling quite grey and fuzzy when it was my usual blogging prime-time. I really want to see this documentary its fascinating/creepy all at the same
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – “Just say no to Polio Vaccinations, Love Allah”
Watch what happens when you mix broken foreign policy with religion… “One of Pakistan’s most influential clerics has renounced his support for polio immunisation, claiming that the programme is a cover for American spies.” Pakistan needs less of this particular brand of religious stupidity. The stupid is compounded by the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Qualia Soup – Secularism
Qualia soup argues for secularism and its benefits to atheists and theists. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Qualia Soup, Secularism, Secularism is good for society
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
Damn you CKUA breakfast show. You made me late to work as I had to listen to the end of the movement to find out what piece you were playing. On the upside finding out it was a whole concerto was fantastic. he piece, as marked in the score, is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tropes vs Women – The Evil Demon Seductress
Women getting squished into yet another trope that reflects poorly on our society. This time with help of the feminist frequency we observe how women are held up as objects of objectification and ridicule at the same time. Patriarchy is good at that giving women two choices both equally bad
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Miss Representation – The Documentary
I found the whole movie on youtube, lucky us. It is one hour and twenty six minutes long, so find some popcorn and a comfy chair. Learn and enjoy. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Feminist Critique, Miss Representation
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Solar Flare – There goes my radio reception.
Solar flares make CBC radio 2 reception crappy. Completely a first world problem, but I really do like clear reception when Radio2 isn’t playing crap. Not to worry too much though, apparently the storm will not wipe our earth slate clean: “A solar storm that began with a massive
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Abortion, for everyone else.
Betty Bowers, albeit somewhat crassly, explains the christian take on abortion. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Abortion, christian “morality”, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Jadehawk on Anti-Feminism – The Deconstruction of Paula Kirby
Just some highlights from Paula Kirby’s essay on Feminism. I’ve read it and concluded that she really has missed the point of what feminism is all about. The original document is here, and of course the deconstruction is at Jadehawk’s blog from which this excerpt originates. [PK:}Let’s consider 1930s Germany
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oh We’re Totally Post-Feminism…
I see and hear this little piece of dudely wisdom far, FAR, too often. It represents such an massive break from reality, and yet this harmful trope continues onward. The usual suspects make their appearances, privilege, misogyny the unexamined life – reasons but not excuses for not being in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Prelude & Fugue No. 12 in F Minor BWV 881
One of my favourites from Book II. The Well-Tempered Clavier (German: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier),[2] BWV 846–893, is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He first gave the title to a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, dated 1722, composed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Trouble with Billionaires – Linda McQuaig
I wish I had gotten around to reading this book sooner. It is a great read and takes a great deal of piss out of the arguments (made by our beloved conservative/libertarian friends) for lower taxes and more love for the wealthy. I highly recommend reading it. Check out other
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A note to those who say they oppose sexism and misogyny in the atheist-skeptical movement
I keep finding good stuff to repost. This blog entry is by Salty Current with the original found here. “If you say I think sexism, misogyny, and harassment of women, including in this community, are real problems that need to be addressed, you should stop there and consider what
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tropes vs Women – The Smurfette Principle
Ah yes, tokenism at its best. Just imagine the dudely outrage when called out on this particular trope. See! See! We have a female character… oh wait. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: DWR Feminist Wednesday Feature, Feminist Critique, Feminsim, Tropes vs Women, Understanding Feminism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Star Wars Lightsaber Fight?
Maybe not? Filed under: Humour Tagged: Humour, Light Saber, Phantom Fail, Star Wars
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Republican Horrified to ‘Discover’ that Islam is a Religion
We’ll file this under the heading ,”Only *MY* magical religious beliefs and bigotry are acceptable”. This article has to do with the already wrong notion that a voucher system is somehow good for public education and the whiplash inducing reversal of course that happened once it was known that school
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