Let it be said up front that this cranky second waver bears no animus with regards to hamsters, electric vehicles, or dancing. Yet, once these elements are mixed into the toxic soup of everyone’s favourite capitalistic patriarchal construct – better known as ‘our society’ – hilarity is bound to ensue.
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The Misanthropic Bird: Home Is Where the Toque Is
It has been far too long since I’ve written anything, as we know, life can get in the way, and it sure doesn’t give a damn about your plans. Nonetheless, I’ve finally returned to good ol’ Canadian soil, and (gladly) left the suffocating smog of Beijing. Travel has been a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Edmonton School Board Boots Christian Misogynists and their Abstinence Only Platform
Because Magic, taught as fact, in the curriculum is AWESOME! Further breaking news: The Edmonton Public School Board will also remove Soylent Green Recipe Book from the Foods curriculum. How does feculence like this happen in my school system? “An Edmonton teen and her mother have filed a complaint with the Human
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Four Minutes, One Hundred and Fifty Four Bullets.
I get email: From the Sandyhook Promise – Dear Friend, “The person who killed my precious son Dylan carried 10, 30-round, large-capacity gun ammunition magazines into Sandy Hook Elementary. 300 rounds. He deliberately left the smaller-capacity magazines at home. In approximately four minutes, he shot 154 bullets, killing 20 children
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Four Minutes, One Hundred and Fifty Four Bullets.
I get email: From the Sandyhook Promise – Dear Friend, “The person who killed my precious son Dylan carried 10, 30-round, large-capacity gun ammunition magazines into Sandy Hook Elementary. 300 rounds. He deliberately left the smaller-capacity magazines at home. In approximately four minutes, he shot 154 bullets, killing 20 children
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oil Companies Need Their Profits – The Summer Gas Gouge.
Oh Canada! Producer of so much oil and making strides to export it to other countries just had its first jump in gasoline prices. One question to contemplate is that rather than exporting oil to other countries wouldn’t it be nice to stabilize the domestic market supply and give Canadian
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oil Companies Need Their Profits – The Summer Gas Gouge.
Oh Canada! Producer of so much oil and making strides to export it to other countries just had its first jump in gasoline prices. One question to contemplate is that rather than exporting oil to other countries wouldn’t it be nice to stabilize the domestic market supply and give Canadian
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: RPOJ – Neil Macdonald Fails at Understanding what Rape Culture is.
Today’s Red Pen of Justice edition is brought to you by the clueless parvanimity of Neil Macdonald. Mr. Macdonald has many important opinions on Rape Culture and, shockingly enough, they are completely out-to-fucking-lunch-brain-gone-fishing, wrong. “For people my age, the freedom to get drunk or high and then have sex with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Three Minutes of Why Christianity is Absolute Bollocks
It has been educational as of late watching and following thread where the deluded try to defend their belief in magic. People with more patience and experience than I, when it comes to dealing with this level of supernovae-grade ignorance, carefully deconstruct the mendacity and obfuscation and gently tell the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice Extra Edition – The Freedom to Believe in Stupid Ideas (Religion)
Dear Religious people, Have you thanked your local atheist today? If not, you should because atheism and by extension secular society, is saving you from the immoral loopy shit your bronze age beliefs demand. The latest demonstration of how immoral and barbaric religion is comes to us from the
Continue readingThe Misanthropic Bird: Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out
It seems every other election year, there are murmurs of Quebec’s egomaniacal need to separate from the rest of Canada. And this new election is bringing this idea whole heartedly to the table. Under the ‘new leadership’ of Karl Peladeau, the Parti Quebecois’ platform has taken a hard turn from
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hey Alberta, Look What Norway Did. WTF?
It sucks when your government is an entity so devoid of anything resembling a spine. The Alberta government is so deeply in bed with big oil its shite and piss are black. So, rather than looking at an example of how to fuck your citizens over, take a look
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Birkenstocks and The World of Fashion
All Hail the Double Face Palm of Fashion! Oh the consternation! Oh the anguish! What are people to do when presented with such a horrible choicewhen their very societal presence and standing threatened by a humble German sandal. Dear Fashion World and associated flaky devotees – you amuse the fuck
Continue readingThe Misanthropic Bird: Mad As Hell
I got up this morning to a fog rolling into the city. It’s not from rain, or from temperature change or any other natural reason for a hazy day. It’s because I live in Beijing, and the pollution levels are on the rise today. Jumping a few dozen points between
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Civilization, Capitalism, Consumption – Why stop the Orgy?
I’m glad I’ll be dead when humanity’s collective shit hits the fan. I used to get all wrapped up in debates about Capitalism and the slow motion Seppuku we’re committing. I was genuinely flummoxed when my arguments were characterized as hopelessly naive and that my positions were unfounded vis-a-vis economic
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Sanctity of Human Life?
When arguing about abortion and other moral topics, one is almost guaranteed to hear this lofty phrase trotted out. Like a a gentle desert sirocco, you only miss it when it isn’t there. People seem to have some very strange ideas about how we regularly treat each other here on
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Forced Birth Advocate has a Sad at Being Called a Forced Birth Advocate
What most abortions look like. Having laid down the smack on this forced-birther, he then laments being called on his misogyny and fundamental disrespect for the female portion of the species. This is Red Pen of Justice Territory folks. Before he gets deep into the anti-choice bullcookery we detour into
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The First Honest Cable Company…
A big thanks to Moe over at Whatever Works for finding this short video on our ISP’s. Just watch the free market in action… Filed under: Rant Tagged: Cable Providers, Free Markets?, ISP, Oligarchy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Darwin, work your magic: Neknominating
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to stare down the barrel of a gun loaded with stupid. Thanks to the phenomena known as Neknominating, now I know. I have yet more people to add to my already turgid list of people who are too dumb to live.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Matthew’s Problem with Reality – The Subdolous Red Pen of Justice Wiggles, yet Again.
Find your helmets and the hazmat suits dear readers, we’re going into the high back-country of mendacity where the stupid is rugged and the ignorance is thick. Yes, we’re going to go visit our dear friend Matthew again because it is so rare to find such a deluded ball of
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