What an excellent resolution for the new year – let’s not be assholes. 😉
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Dead Wild Roses: Canadian Liberal Party Ineptly Pressing the Fear Button
The Liberal Party of Canada is extinction bursting on the fear button. They quote one of the grifters on their payroll in attempt to smear the opposition. Maybe quoting a male that is rabidly misogynistic for your attack ad isn’t a keen strategy? But of course, throwing Canadian women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anything I Disagree with is “Far Right” – Douglas Murray
We need to be able identify thought terminating cliches and deal with them appropriately. We need to encourage not suppress speech in society.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Moms For Liberty – Let’s Bring Back Discernment in Public School Libraries.
This is a frustrating clip to watch. The host is constantly talking over the guest as she tries to respond to the attempted ‘gotcha’ questions being posed. I think we need to be clear here. There is no need to “Experts” to weigh in on keeping sexually explicit and pornographic
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pardon for the Blog Interruption – Bad Lettuce
Apologies for the blogus-interuptus, but I had a run in with some lettuce (yes, I washed it thoroughly) that gave me a severe case of food poisoning. Nothing life threatening, but it made regularly scheduled activities impossible. Back on the horse now and thus the blog goodness can continue. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Tchaikovsky – Hymn of the Cherubim
“Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music. Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul’s moods.” – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Taxonomy of Cancel Culture – Luke C. Sheahan
Cancel Culture is a term that is is now common parlance, but what exactly is it and what are the conditions that foster such a blight on our society and social systems? Many of the actions of the activist-Left (or woke) when they attempt to cancel a person in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Academic Freedom is Not a Self-Justifying Good – Greg Weiner
“Academic freedom is not a self-justifying good. It must be oriented to some end that merits the support of those who finance it. One end of liberal education is the advancement of knowledge, which requires diverse opinions and the freedom to challenge orthodoxy. But another is to preserve and transmit
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: ICBM’s – The Nuclear Question
The very real threat of nuclear war hasn’t been on the radar since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Yet the capacity for self-annihilation remains. Consider the question raised by Daniel Ellsberg: “When I say that there is a step that could reduce the risk of nuclear war significantly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cognitive Frames for Defining What Government Is – Richard Morrison
While reading Richer Morrison’s essay called Self-Defeating Environmental Activism this particular paragraph caught my eye ( I recommend reading the entire essay). “I call this unconstrained in part as a reference to the distinction the economist Thomas Sowell advanced, of a constrained vs. unconstrained view of society and government. The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Activist Left’s Hold on Media has been Broken.
It is glorious. People actually discussing trans ideology and not being shut down or cancelled for daring to speak for female rights, boundaries, and safety. 2024 is off to a fine start.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Douglas Murray & Cenk Uygur – On the Hamas/Israel Conflict
Douglas Murray has a hard rule about public debates. He will treat you with respect – until you cross the line of politeness and decency. Then, the gloves come off. Very close to a master class is put on by Cenk Uygur on how not to hold your own in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A DWR Merry Christmas
Harmony and peace would be good as well I suppose. I hope everyone has a great Holiday Season!
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