Hymns suck. And I don’t just mean in moral or rational sense, though they definitely suck in those areas as well. I mean musically. They are absolutely wretched. As a fledgeling choral singer, I’m aware of some wonderfully fantastic religious based pieces that are beautiful to listen to and sing,
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Dead Wild Roses: Anarchism vs. Libertarianism – Noam Chomsky
The uniquely toxic form of libertarianism in the US and is a symptom of private power and influence run amok. This is just a snippet of the interview with Noam Chomsky, I recommend you go read the entire article on Alternet. Wilson: Why should we choose anarchy, as opposed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Not so spring-like after all
This photo was taken in roughly the same spot as the last flowerbed picture. Curse you, Alberta weather! Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Fail, heartwarming nature crap
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fluffing a Duck – Homeopathy: Still Absolute Rubbish
Ah homeopathy, how we’ve missed you here at DWR. It has been at least a year since we excoriated your incredulous claims with the biting scourge of rationality, but let’s refresh our memories and let Cool Hard Logic, with his most apropos music selection, remind us how bugfraking nutz Homeopathy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The War on Men – For the Lolz
And the nominee for Ministry of Truth goes to, you guessed it Fox News. The bullshite truly runs free on this fetid gem of an article featured on Faux News. Yes, the War has come home. The War on MEN is ON!!!!11!1!!! This article ranks highly on the coveted
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meet the “Nice Guys” of Okcupid
But gosh and wow, all at once. There is a sociology paper to be written about this phenomena, the great mystery of why… oh why… ‘nice guys’ cannot get with women. Actually wait, it needs to be feminist paper…or actually a feminist sentence. If women aren’t into you it is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ah, my favorite Ayn Rand Quote
On Objectivism – “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with
Continue readingOntario Progressive Conservatives embrace contradictions.
I was browsing through the Ontario Progressive Conservative ‘Party History’ page, and I noticed the amusing contradictions. Before that, let’s start with their more recent leader/Premier, pulled directly from their Party History page, (1995-2002) Premier Michael Harris “[His] achievements included welfare reform, health care restructuring, major reductions in public spending
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oh Mittens! – There you go again.
Liberal Viewer (and everyone else) has decided that Romney should show a little more love to the moochers and freeloaders of American society. Just sayn’. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Fail, Liberal Viewer, Oh Mittens!, Republican “strategy”, Romney, The Rich hate you, US Politics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Not enough faces, not enough palms
An explosion and/or fire at Shaw Court in Calgary has knocked out a significant quantity of telecommunications equipment, affecting not only bank machines and radio stations, but stuff like 911 service and the program that tells ambulances which hospital they should take a patient to. Calgary Fire Department spokesperson Jayson
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Fixed Election Date #FAIL
WTF does not even begin to convey my complete and utter shock and disgust… Today, in the House of Commons, during Question Period, the interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada asked the Prime Minister about Canada’s fixed election date (known as #elxn42 to the #cdnpoli Twitterati), the legislation
Continue readingThings Are Good: Kids Should Fail
A prevailing attitude in North American schools is that students shouldn’t be able to fail, but really what better place than a school to learn from mistakes? Thankfully people are noticing that letting kids not excel at something is actually a good thing. Interestingly, it’s in the world of games
Continue readingthe woodshed: There is a reason Florida has its own tag on FARK
Ah Florida, land of orange blossoms, beaches, golf courses built on gator-filled swamps and the early bird buffet special. Home to Disneyland, retirement paradises and more crazy per capita than any other state in the union except maybe Utah. I’m not sure if it’s too much time in the sun
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Let the Green Revolution Begin!
First, they start having riding associations dropping like flies, plus an entire provincial party and almost two.Then, the leader sidesteps a constitution-mandated review of her time in office, thereby shutting down any challengers.After that, they go …
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Libertarianism – Explained!
Well, explained more than F-you, I’ve got mine. Gleaned from Pharyngula, a post from Jadehawk. I think that it’s possible to have libertarian values and still like things like governments and taxes and social programs. yup. That’s called being liberal, progressive, or even anarcho-syndicalist, depending on the exact ratio of “libertarian” values to government/taxes/social programs […]
Dead Wild Roses: More Christain “Morality”
It’s funny how when the bible says some really ugly repugnant things the ability to interpret what it ‘actually’ means becomes so darn important. One would think the word of god was above the musing of mere mortals….
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Continue readingDead 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: 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 […]