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.
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Dead 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
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Muscial Interlude – Peskanov:Temptations
This piece is lively, bright and exciting. Not to mention way beyond my technical ability, but I love it anyways. Filed under: Music Tagged: Peskanov, Solo Piano, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why is the “X” unknown?
TED talks enlists Terry Moore to find out why we call our unknown variables “X”. Short, concise and illuminating. Filed under: Education Tagged: “X”, TED Talks, Why is X unkown
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Environment – CTD
The amount written about the environment and what needs to be done is staggering. We’ll file this report under the heading “Oh Sh*t were screwed” column for the sake of convenience. The only limits humanity respects are those of a distinctly Malthusian nature. I’d add to his general work
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Philosophy – The Evolutionary Argument Refuted
Discussing the refutation of Alvin Plantinga’s ‘Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism’ based on truth as a conventional semantic property. A bit of mouthful, but very interesting stuff for your brain to chew on. Filed under: Education Tagged: Philosophy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: There is no Morality in Christianity – Christopher Hitchens.
This small clip features Hitchens at his best, dismantling the arguments of Christian apologists and believers with his acerbic wit and argumentation. Consider the horrible implications of the all knowing, all seeing, all father. I for one reject the tyrannical celestial dictatorship and the misanthropic beliefs it spawns. Filed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Categorizing the godless.
What? No religious tomfoolery to debunk and slam? Even the practiced old hands here at DWR need a break from the usual turkeyshoot of specious religious arguments that get passed off as ‘debate’ these days. In that light, I present this article from Alternet that attempts to give us non
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: No Zero Policy – Student Accountability?
This is a case of the Educational system, although technically right, looking very stupid and out of touch with reality when it comes to giving zeros to students who have not done their work. It is shameful though that a veteran teacher is going to lose his job over
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Classical Music Interlude – Pachelbel’s Canon in D via the Piano Guys
Ask any cellist. They’ll tell you about what’s it’s like to play the cello part of Pachebel’s Canon in D. It’s the same 8 notes over and over and over again. The good news is, it’s easy to memorize. The bad news is you don’t know when to stop. There’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Death of Stars – Hubblecast
Astronomy is another passion of mine. Enjoy this short clip on the fate of our Sun and similar stars. Filed under: Science Tagged: Astronomy, The Sun, White Dwarf
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oh the Woe that is Diablo 3 – *waves bu-bye* to free time.
After running like the good hamster I was on the Diablo 2 treadmill I said to myself, “I’m done with action RPG’s, they are nothing more than beautifully constructed Variable Reinforcement Schedules that soak up my free time. I quit. I really did. I was Diablo free for about 10
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Transit of Venus – Worth Watching, but do it safely.
It is one of those lifetime events, as Venus rarely crosses the plane of our orbit while in front of the sun. “Our nearest planetary neighbour will be passing between the Earth and the sun starting at 6:04 p.m. ET on June 5 and will be aligned in such
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Jesus Gay Marriage Sing A Long
Made for our friends down south, but really our fine Harperites are feeding from the same trough so it applies to them as well. Filed under: Atheism, Politics Tagged: How Religion Poisons Everything, Religious/Republican Mendacity, Sing with Jesus!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Catholic Church Fighting Against the Rights of Women; now with Blackmail and Extortion.
I really wish my job was harder on finding and featuring the appalling nature of religion and the horrible shite it makes people do. Today’s disservice features Cardinal Timothy Dolan arguing that if forced to allow women access to birth control they intend to cease their charitable work done
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quebec Protesters – Doing Canada Proud
Democracy in Action – Look and Learn my sleeping obedient country. The protests in Quebec are an example to the rest of Canada to what an active citizenry is like and how people can affect change in the political spectrum. At the time of this writing, 39 days of protest
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: J.S.Bach Piano Concerto No.7 in G minor BW
Take a baroque and enjoy some Bach Filed under: Music Tagged: Bach, Piano Concerto N0.7 in g minor, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
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