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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Dead Wild Roses: The Power of Networking – The RSA Animate.
It has been a long time since I’ve featured an RSA animation on the blog. Today’s post deals with the idea of networks and how we organize knowledge. Sit back and enjoy the education. Filed under: Education Tagged: Education, Networks, RSA Animate
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bill Maher on Greed
It is nice to see a little sanctimony coming from the other side of the political spectrum once and awhile. Bill Maher fills that role admirably. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Bill Maher, Greed, Greed is good, Humour, US Domestic Policy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Christian Love – “Homosexuals are worthy of Death”
I do love what the commitment to mythology does to people. Religion distorts empathy and reason and allows bigots like the pastor featured in this clip to get away with spewing more than a few spitefully atrocious statements. It is funny though for a religion that often claims to represent
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Calming Down – Putting Down Roots
The move is over. Let the unpacking begin. Thank you, my committed readership, for staying with us here at DWR during the transition to our new home. It has been a wild and hectic couple of weeks. I should be able to commit a little more time to blogging and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Ave Maria – Josquin des Prez
I want to sing this so very badly. Filed under: Music Tagged: Ave Maria, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Babies in Hell
Like to watch Christians tie themselves in knots trying to explain/justify sending infants to burn forever? Yah..me too. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Babies in Hell, Christianity, How Religion Poisons Everything, Religious Violence
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Shifting Sands of Evidence & Argument – Why Religious Arguments Fail to Persuade
This is a technical look at religious arguments, both for and against the way way in which religion describes our experience. I suggest you skim the preview of the paper for more understanding, but the video is an adequate primer for answering the following question – Are your beliefs, theistic
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Precariat – Where we are going to…
Finding a way out of the the seemingly permanent global economic crisis is going to require looking at the factors that got us there. Noam Chomsky opines that the downfall really started in the 1970′s and has been on an ever increasing spiral of ruin ever since. One of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Another Light Blogging Week – Moving
What do you get when you cross moving to a new house, getting a new dog and still working fulltime? Yes, sadly you guessed it a light blogging week. Please accept my apologies, but unpacking is eating up all of my time thus the posts this week barring any works
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Happy Draw Mohammed Day Everyone!
Spit in the eye of religious stupidity. Proclaim a mighty “Frack You!” to the people who seriously believe in screwed up shite. Mark Twain said it best: “Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them–and by laughing at them destroy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fox News – Misinformation on Tap 24/7
I wonder what colour the sky is in the land of Fox News. I really do. The level in inaccuracy and partisan slant censorship present is an obscene injustice against the American people and their right to know what is done in their name. Certainly we can make fun of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Friday Musical Interlude – Bourne Vivaldi – The Piano Guys
Story behind the song: There are few “hooks” in the movie-music world that are as grabby as the Bourne Identity Soundtrack riff (starts at 0:29). Like the movie series, its intensity commands attention. We just had to figure out a way to use it. In our usual style, we thought
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Family Will Be Growing – The Shadow Knows…
Oh, I’ve just been full of anecdata as of late, but important events are important events. Intransigentia and I have qualified to adopt a senior Shetland Sheepdog. Shadow will be joining us on Sunday May 19th. Let the dog-awesomeness begin. Find your local humane services or Shares and donate some
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Nightmare Canadian Conservative Justice – Let’s Not Recreate the American Failure Up Here
The burning legion of stupid, led by Harper and his Conservative clown government balefully plods on toward making Canada’s prison system a mirror image of the failed system present in the United States. Do we really need to frack things up Canada-Harper style to get the message that this is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We Need “Conservative Math” for Social Spending.
Can you imagine if we had the sort of hand grenade type budgeting for the social services of Canada? It would be like OH!, nationalized day care??? we thought it was like only 5 billion, but it turned out to be 7 billion, damn I guess that’s just ‘mission
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Jesus Loves the Hell Math Redux
Not too long ago Mystro wrote a persuasive piece about how horrible the ramifications are of being tormented for eternity and the loopy logic involved therein. Today’s Disservice will revisit that topic, only now in a helpful youtube video format to illustrate the machinations of a loving and just god.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Obscenity of Christianity – Thunderf00t on WLC
As if you need another reason to hate the rotten edifice of christian religion… Filed under: Religion Tagged: Deluded Christians, Morality, Religion, Thunderf00t, WLC
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73
Almost posted the 9th again. Whoops. The concerto is divided into three movements: Allegro in E-flat major Adagio un poco mosso in B major Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo in E-flat major As with Beethoven’s other concertos from this time period, this work has a relatively long first movement. (At
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Twinning Highway 63 – Socialism!!1!!1!
Shut up you pinko bastards. Calling for the twinning of a perfectly fine road that will cost taxpayers millions of dollars. The nanny state can’t take care you and all of your damn problems. It’s a free country if you don’t like driving highway 63 to Fort McMurray then take
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