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
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Dead 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
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Burden of Proof – Qualia Soup
QS tackles some debate basics, but makes the argument that our society is progressing to the state where we can challenge the claims of those who subscribe to the supernatural. Enjoy. Filed under: Education, Religion Tagged: Arguments, Qualia Soup, The Burden of Proof, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – D.Scarlatti, Cat’s Fugue.
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
Continue readingDead 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
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