This video, like the Thunderf00t reason rally video, is about taking the superstition and religious non-sense head on. There is no moderator, no stage just the free exchange of ideas and arguments in a public forum. AronRa does a marvellous job of handling all the ‘gotcha’ questions the deluded
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Dead Wild Roses: Repent and Reload!
Nothing like a fair heaping of ridicule for the GOP to start the day off right. Filed under: Humour, Politics Tagged: GOP PAC Annoucement, Humour, Repent & Reload
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bach – Passacagilia and Fugue in C Minor
Same ground base, 20 variations, 1 bar ending. The brilliance of Bach on display. BWV 582/1: Passacaglia The passacaglia is in 3/4 time typical of the form. Bach’s ostinato comprises eight bars, which is unusual but not unheard of: an ostinato of the same length is used, for example, in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dismembering the CBC – The Conservative Hatchet Job on Canadian Culture.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation provides a great window into Canadian culture (as it is) and gives Canadians a platform to interact with each other to express and share their views. The CBC also provides news and commentary that is not vetted by commercial interests before going to air as
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: One Day Without Brains – Guillible people Shilling for a Shoe Company
April 10th, One Day Without Shoes (or Comprehension) Today is a day in which a company encourages you to go barefoot for a day (this years site has been mostly scrubbed of overt branding, criticism and backlash against this cynical corporate venture must be growing) of in order to ‘raise
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The BBC almost makes me want to watch Television again – On Satire
What are the inner workings of The Daily Show or Real Time with Bill Maher? The interviews give a small slice of insight into what the leading satirists in America believe they are doing and why they do what they do. Also, Rory Bremner, from the UK is also
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Easter Sunday – god still not good.
Debating the religious on a one to one basis is almost always an exercise in frustration. The religious indoctrination often runs both wide and deep making finding a reasonable starting point extremely difficult. What is beneficial is to listen to both side advance their arguments and then deconstruct them
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Join the Party! – Contradictions in the GOP.
I’m thinking we need a Canadian version for our own reality challenged Conservative party. Filed under: Politics Tagged: American Politics, funny-sad, Humour, Join the party!, The Republicans
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Muscial Interude – So Happy Together – The Piano Guys
Skydiving with a cello = Awesome. “Happy Together” is a 1967 song from The Turtles‘ album of the same name. Released in February 1967, the song knocked The Beatles‘ “Penny Lane” out of the #1 slot for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] It was the group’s only chart-topper.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Visualization of Logical Fallacies
Check out a speech given by Britian’s most senior Catholic. Filed under: Education Tagged:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: You are what you watch – Violence in the Media
I think one of the smartest things a parent can do is get rid of the TV if they have children. TV land is a violently misogynistic place that perpetuates the current ugly set of cultural norms we have here in North America. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Folly of Debating Christians – Thunderf00t and Eric Hovind
Thunderf00t gets a trophy for patience as he systematically attempts to debate with the foolishly inane Eric Hovind. This video is 29 minutes of fist-clenching agony as Hovind petulantly refuses to answer questions and fails to understand the most basic of knowledge. People who debate Theists are aware of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Coming Pancake Apocalypse – Damn You, Mild Winter!
It is with heavy heart that I must share this most disturbing news. Due to the extraordinary mild winter in Canada this year, the supply of one of the very touchstones of our Canadian culture is in jeopardy. Yes friends, the harvest of Maple Syrup is down a whopping
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Top 10 Reasons not to believe in God (#10).
Greta Christina is a prominent member of the new Atheist movement. She has recently published a work called “Why are you Atheists so Angry? – 99 Things that piss off the Godless.” I’m happy to feature some of her work here on the Sunday Disservice. 1: The consistent replacement
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: So you think you stuff is safe in public?
Urban living makes it difficult to break with the expected privacy norms…watch and see. Filed under: Science, Social Science Tagged: CIty Expectations, Safe in Public?, Sociolgy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mozart Symphony No. 40 – 3rd movement, Menuetto Trio
I’ve been listening to the Triple A guide on How to listen to and understand great music. This piece by Mozart was featured in the Minuet/Trio section of the lecture. Can you spot the imitative polyphony section? Filed under: Music Tagged: Friday Classical Music Interlude, Mozart, Mozart Symphony
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: School in Finland – Student Centered Learning
Finland blazes a trail of successful educational policy. Filed under: Education Tagged: Academic Win, Educational Policy, Finland
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sodoku and Mathematics
Every wonder how many clues you needed to uniquely solve a Sudoku puzzle? Watch and find out Filed under: Science Tagged: Mathematics, Sodoku
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mudering the Middle Class – Bill Maher
Voting republican? Well the rich need their defenders too, sheesh. Filed under: Humour, Politics Tagged: Bill Maher, Class War, Job Creators?, Politics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Manly Origins of Cheerleading – Sociological Images
As usual Sociological Images is chock-full of interesting articles. I was intrigued by the title of this post and decided to reproduce it in part here for the benefit of my readership. While you are there, check out the article on how cheerleading outfits are shrinking over time. “You might
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