Watch the intensely stupid anti-vax loonery in full bloom as they make the case for exposing your newborns to disease, because if their bodies “don’t want it” they simply won’t get sick. Their next show is on how Big Science has fooled us into believing that the earth is round… Filed under: Medicine, Science […]
Author: The Arbourist
Dead Wild Roses: Asbestos – Canadian Pride!(?)
It is comforting to see that our financial myopia extends to the production and export of asbestos. If the tarsands and the associated environmental degradation is a slam dunk for Canada, for then exporting asbestos should hardly be on the radar. “Canada won the fight, for at least another two years, to keep asbestos […]
Dead Wild Roses: 5 Things Atheists have Wrong About Religion?
Responding to criticism and arguing coherently are the hallmarks of reasonable, mature debate. Browsing the articles on Alternet my attention was drawn to the article that shares the same moniker as this post, minus the question mark. I was hoping for some meaty, thought-provoking arguments by Scofield. I was disappointed. The 5 points […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Good without god
We can be good without consulting the godhead of your choice. Qualia Soup makes an engaging look at morality and religion.
Filed under: Education, Religion, Science Tagged: Morallity, Qualia Soup, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: RSA – Animate – Choice
Within structural systems there is great pressure to conform, in Capitalism is not an exception.
Filed under: Politics Tagged: Capitalism, Choice, RSA Cognitive Media, Social Change
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Another year over – end of school melancholy
Recent cutbacks have curbed my employment at the school that I teach in. So today was my last day. Some days you feel like a song. Today I feel like this… Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Anecdata, Endings, Loss, School Days
Dead Wild Roses: Evolution, Not A Controversy
Evidence from youtube, makes a concise movie about Evolution and Intelligent Design.
Filed under: Science Tagged: Evolution, Science, Teach the Controversy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Global Capital – Our enemy, our friend?
From a recent interview of Noam Chomsky by Michael Learner – ML: […]What path is rational for a movement seeking to build a world of environmental sanity, social justice, and peace, yet facing such a sophisticated, powerful, and well-organized social order? NC: […]At the moment we can’t realistically talk about challenging global capital, because the […]
Dead Wild Roses: Extinguishing Women’s Rights – One State at a Time.
Liberty in the land of the brave, and the home of the free seems to be missing a clause somewhere because liberty is not really working well for women, especially if looking for access to reproductive health services such as abortion. The Alternet article lists the top 10 states where Abortion is virtually illegal. […]
Dead Wild Roses: Quote of the Day – The Spirit Level – Equality
Just picking up the Spirit Level again, and finding great stuff to share. As a way of creating a more egalitarian society, employee ownership and control have many advantages. First, it enables a process of social emancipation as people become members of a team. Second, it puts the scale of earning differentials ultimately under […]
Dead Wild Roses: Exploiting the Proletariat – Business as Usual in the US.
Sometimes the Russian Television network has some good stories. By good stories I mean, news articles that would never seen the light of day within the media disciplined airwaves of the U.S. According the the RT report, US workers are working harder for less and less every year, and funny, business has never been better […]
Dead Wild Roses: Open Letter to Bioware – The Old Republic
An Open Letter to BioWare on The Old Republic MMO As a single consumer, I have very little impact as to what goes on and into TOR. I am writing this letter to voice concerns over the development of the game and more personally, what would make me happy and want to purchase the game. […]
Dead Wild Roses: Vancouver Riots – Shameful and Predictable.
Pouring beer into the 18-34 demographic and then throwing them into a crowded urban street is an unsurprising recipe for disaster. If you look at the videos out there you see people reveling in distinctly anti-social behaviour and of course acting with extreme stupidity. In this clip, you see a man trying to curb the […]
Dead Wild Roses: Oh hey, corporate profits are up, everyone must be doing better, right?
As a proponent of progressive taxation and egalitarian society I still hear about benefits “trickling down” from the top of society to the bottom. This of course is still horsepucky but as a meme still shows a great amount of resiliency as it continues to crop up again and again. Another sticking point is all […]
Dead Wild Roses: Edmonton christian LOGOS program – Yes Timmy, Homosexuals should burn in Hell.
Teaching religion in public schools as a serious “subject” is just wrong. Religious studies are acceptable, but this is not what this is. Would you want to subject your child to graded learning on how the tooth fairy or easter bunny makes their rounds? Some people do, and want to continue to do so on […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Honouring (beating) your Wife Islamic Style.
The Disservice takes a dim view of most religions with a few notable exceptions (sock-gnome worship is encouraged). Islam takes centre stage many Sundays for no other reason that it promotes ugly, horrible things. Today’s little gem is the proper way to beat your wife and stay on the down-low with allah all at the […]
Dead Wild Roses: Just in case you missed it – No Rapture for Anyone!
Darkmatter 2525 is quickly becoming one of my favourite youtube video producers.
Filed under: Education, Religion Tagged: Reality Check, Religion fail, The Rapture?, Welcome to Atheism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hallelujah – Charlatans for Jesus!
Hallelujah! The faith healers of the world prey on the misery and hopelessness of others. Watch the fail in action as the power of the christian faith heals the sick, mends the crippled and gets everyone ice cream and unicorns for the car ride home. For a dogma based on uncritical belief and an […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Honour Killings – No place in Secular Canada
The correlation between religion and the capacity to do monstrous deeds is again shown by the following clip which describes a few of the honour killings that have happened in Canada since the turn of century. Most certainly patriarchal cultural norms play factor, but it religion that puts the icing on the cake, the […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Evils of Socialism?
Strip away all the muddle, all the hoopla, all the baggage and then you can begin to understand what Socialism is actually about. Noam Chomsky explains how the term has been, in essence, denatured and is quite meaningless except as a dog-whistle for the normative defenders of the the capitalist status-quo. Filed under: Education Tagged: […]