The nickname, which was never used by the composer himself but was introduced only early in the 19th century, originates from a story about how Scarlatti came up with the strikingly unusual motif on which the fugue is built. Legend has it that Scarlatti had a pet cat called
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Dead Wild Roses: Joseph Stiglitz – On Redistribution of Wealth
From a great interview on Alter.net – “LP: Some say that if we redistribute income in a more equitable way, people won’t want to work as hard. Is that true? What happens to our motivation to work when things are so inequitable? JS: One of the myths that I try
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tropes vs Women #2 – Women in Refrigerators
Popular culture certainly has it in for women, they wind up dead surprisingly often. Oh and a link to the actual site of the WiR trope. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: DWR Feminist Wednesday Feature, Feminist Critique, Tropes vs Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mansplaining – The Guide.
Every once and awhile I feel the need to put information that is important into a blog post for easy reference. Today’s post is an amalgamation of the concept of Mansplaining, what it involves and how and why it happens. Let’s start of with a definition: Mansplaining isn’t just
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: No Breathalyser – Mon Dieu!
I’m sure this new legislation in France will impress the hell out of libertarians world wide. The French have identified that statistically, alcohol is involved in some 30% of traffic collisions. The solution? Mandatory breathalysers in every car. Al Jazeera breaks this story wide open: “A new motoring law
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Faith is not a Virtue – Featuring Aron Ra
The speech is only 30 minutes long, the rest is an extended Q&A session. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: AronRa, Faith is not a a Virtue, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Doing Capitalism Differently – Spain’s Mondragon Corporation
From Alter.net Richard D. Wolffe writes: “In May 2012, I had occasion to visit the city of Arrasate-Mondragon, in the Basque region of Spain. It is the headquarters of the Mondragon Corporation (MC), a stunningly successful alternative to the capitalist organization of production. MC is composed of many co-operative enterprises
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christian Science – Geocentric All the Way Baby!
The infallible word of god is proven once again to be anything but although we should give the RCC credit they stuck to their guns that the earth was the centre of the universe till 1992. That is religious progress for you. Potholer54 does a wonderful job of ridiculing the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tropes vs. Women – The Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Patriarchy hurts both women and men. This the first of in a series of examinations of popular culture presented with a feminist critique. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Feminist Critique, Tropes vs Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Republican War on Women Continues – Mississippi Failing
The United States is regressing quickly under the burden of its plutocratic elites. Public health and the rights of women are under onslaught by ignorant religious ideologues who espouse intensely anti-woman rhetoric that undermines the ideals of civilized society. You would think that idiocy on this scale would quickly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Children in the Cage!
File this story under the “sad state of our society”; when we allow are children to mimic the testosterone fuelled stupidity known as MMA and somehow think that its OK. “A mixed martial arts competition in Moncton, N.B., is garnering controversy after it featured a cage fight between children
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Pick up sticks and you die!
Ah, the prefect moral being and originator of all things good and holy is at it once again, this time condemning people to death for daring to defy his will. Objectively moral my ass. Filed under: Religion Tagged: absolute morality, christian “morality”, ethics, How Religion Poisons Everything
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Richard Dawkins and Cardinal Pell – Q&A – Watch Religion Fail Mightily
The good cardinal is out gunned, out classed and out argued on this episode of Q&A. He ends up calling Jesus and ignorant sheep-herder. A great debate, well worth your time. Filed under: Atheism, Religion, Science Tagged: Pell, Q&A, Religion, Richard Dawkins, Science and Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cute, you have met your match…
Finally a great picture of my dog. Shadow says “Hi” and is happy to meet all of you. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Anecdata, Shadow the Shetland Sheepdog, Unabashed Dog Love
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Choral Interlude – O Fortuna
Who says you cannot have fun with classical choral repertoire? Singers: Anita Rywalska, Renata Drozd, Marcin Pomykała, Kamil Pękala tackle Orff, Mercury and ABBA. :> Filed under: Music Tagged: ABBA, Mercury, O Fortuna, Orff, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Timid Squeek of Democracy
Let us sent out a big thanks to the Ontario Swing Voters that brought us this monstrosity known as the Harper Majority Government. The Omnibus bill is the latest poke at the mouldering corpse that is Canadian Politics. Debate? Defence of ideas? Compromise? Not happening in our House of Commons.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Wednesday Feminist Discourse – Feminist Frequency – Tropes Vs Women
Oh the legions of butthurt MRA’s and Nice Guys are trolling the comments on this particular video. “Dear God!,”they say,”what about the men?” can be heard reverberating the intertubes. Wednesday is going to be an examination of the series on video games from a feminist perspective. Enjoy the ride.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Perverting Music – The United States Torture Program – The Sounds of War
“It is music’s capacity to take over your mind and invade your inner experience that makes it so terrifying as a potential weapon.“ – Thomas Keenan, the director of the Human Right’s Project at Bard College Hey, surprise we’re not the good guys. Ever. This is all from Al-Jazeera
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Mexican Option – The Poor slaughtering the Poor.
We’re missing yet another capitalist experiment go bad. Chile self-destructed earlier under the watchful eye of the IMF and its neo-liberal reforms. Mexico, geographically, is much closer to us and you would think that its slide into anarchy would garner a little more attention in our news media. Nah. The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cell Phones in Junior High – My Bane.
You know who should not have access to phone/mp3 player/distractothon 3000′s? Junior high students. Responsible use of electronics seems out of reach of many of my students. The best part is that they are willing to die on that technological hill with all the ensuing teen-age drama that seems
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