The following is an excerpt from John McMurtry’s book Value Wars – The Global Market Versus the Life Economy p. 40 – 41. The value-set that selects for the destruction of a human society is based on an absolutist first premise that whatever serves its unilateral globalization is good, and whatever obstructs or resists its […]
Author: The Arbourist
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Vem kan segla
Thank the Swedish for this lovely piece. Swedish Lyrics: Vem kan segla förutan vind? Vem kan ro utan åror? Vem kan skiljas från vännen sin Utan att fälla tårar? Jag kan segla förutan vind, Jag kan ro utan åror. Men ej skiljas från vännen min Utan att fälla tårar. Vem kan segla förutan vind? Vem […]
Dead Wild Roses: Oh, the Bible says homosexuality is wrong! – Now it makes sense…
Your musty christian tome says a lot of neat stuff. Let’s see, if we did not get to cherry pick the morality that suits us, what we would have to do. But then again, consistency is not really a big part of belief now is it? Thank you to Dammit Janet for the video […]
Dead Wild Roses: Proof that Prayer Does Not Work
My apologies for a video heavy week, but…
Filed under: Religion Tagged: Prayer, Religion, The Power of Prayer
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fox News Bias – Or How Constant Confabulating Costs your Credibility
It is not even a useful question anymore. Fox News might as well be renamed the Republican Party News Channel and get it over with. What they are doing more resembles propaganda than anything else. Liberal Viewer continues his expose on the foibles of faux news. And to think that a good segment of the […]
Dead Wild Roses: Morality: Not in the Bible
Qualia Soup continues his series on Morality with a look at the bible and why it is not the place to go when looking for morality. At fourteen minuets it is long by youtube standards, but well worth watching.
Filed under: Ethics Tagged: Morality, Qu…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Patriarchy and the Non-Existent idea of Consent for Women
Learning about how our culture operates is critical for enlightenment and understanding. Jill from I Blame the Patriarchy shares her view on consent within the culture. In this case, a simple link would not do, as I want to copy/paste this concise definition in another spot on the internet, maybe pissing off some MRA’s in […]
Dead Wild Roses: US Debt – The Shock Therapy Begins
The US debt crisis is being oversimplified. The message we here is we cannot pay our debts and therefore we need balance our spending and balance the budget. Average people can understand that – but here is what has been done so far to combat debt via Whatever Works and a big thanks to Moe […]
Dead Wild Roses: Bill O’Reilly Stumps Internet by Questioning the ‘Mysterious Tides’
His ignorance is like a shield of steel…
Filed under: Humour Tagged: Bill O’Reilly, Fail, Science Fail, Stupid People with a following, The Tides
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Dinosaurs and Humans and Flaming Nostrils!
Religion makes people do horrible things. Today we look at religion making people do horribly funny and obtuse contortions to history and biology. This abuse of fact, reason and common sense is sponsored by and completely underwritten by the nonsense you can find in the bible. However, it must be noted that this is […]
Dead Wild Roses: Quebec Woo-Quackery Claims yet another Victim
Worried about Big Pharma and what corporate sponsored doctors are going to do with you? Worried your tinfoil hat is one size too small and “they” are on to you? Worried and misplacing your skepticism about science based medicine? This news article from the CBC is for you. “A Quebec woman rushed to hospital after […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Purcell’s Scene of the Drunken Poet
This Friday’s interlude is a bit different only because I can say that I’ve also sung what you are about to watch. The Scene of the Drunken poet is not only comedic, but musically interesting as well. Listen in the chorus parts while the sopranos, alto’s, tenor’s and basses play with the melody line in […]
Dead Wild Roses: Ricky Perry Eroding the American Constitution One Prayer Rally at a Time
Watching stupid people do and say stupid things in Texas. Admittedly, low hanging fruit, but great fodder for low blogging weeks.
Filed under: Religion Tagged: How Religion Poisons Everything, Religion, Stupid, Texas
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cosmological Missing Mass – Introduction to Dark Matter Question
Returning from vacation is always a pain, as routines need to be reestablished and new ones laid down. The time I usually spend blogging was not available as I was doing the 12 hour drive from Kaslo back to Edmonton. So, now we are catching up slowly with a few word-light/video-heavy posts. The PI institute […]
Dead Wild Roses: Fun Sun Science
No surprises here, just a nice video of the birth and eventual death of our star. Filed under: Science Tagged: Astronomy, Science, Solar Evolution
Dead Wild Roses: The Monday Morning Misogyny – Marilyn Monroe
Of all the women and all the poses that are available *this* one gets the attention. Of course it is rape culture double thumbs up approved so its all good. *sigh* Still so much work to do… Filed under: Feminism Tagged: All hail the sex-class, Did not consent, Feminism, Rape Culture, Statue Fail
Dead Wild Roses: The Arbourist’s Kaslo Summer Vacation – The Pictures
Summer vacation is never complete without a trip to Kaslo British Columbia. Packing up the fiance and parental unit we embarked on the 12 hour car trip(Oh, and a stop off at Radium Hotsprings as well) to the funky/quaint town known as Kaslo. It is a week of intensive learning, singing and general revelry. This […]
Dead Wild Roses: Science – It works B*tches – Why, rationally, you must accept Evolution
It is nice knowing that you are fairly right about something. Evolution happens to be one of those topics in that category. The funny/sad part is running across people who still “don’t get it” and either are deluded or have let their misplaced skepticism get the better of them. I try unsuccessfully to hide my […]
Dead Wild Roses: Friday Classical Music Interlude Beethoven, Große Fuge, op. 133, string quartet
The Große Fuge (or Grosse Fuge, also known in English as Grand Fugue), Op. 133, is a single-movement composition for string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven. A massive double fugue, it originally served as the final movement of his Quartet No. 13 in B♭ major (Op. 130) but he replaced it with a new […]
Dead Wild Roses: Mosquito Laser – I’ll be first in line…
We are currently being plagued by the malicious little bloodsuckers. The rainy summer has opened the floodgates for these pests. Sometimes bug spray is just not enough…
I am feverently awaiting the day when this becomes a consumer product.
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