The very notion that we are spending money on an assortment of rubber disk chasers, gravity assisted sled-fanatics and dancers-on-frozen water angers me. What infuriates me is the notion that throwing money at this motley crew will somehow enhance Canada’s standing as a nation and that “owning the podium”
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Dead Wild Roses: Reactionary Stupidity from Bullshite Mountain
Another ardent believer in free speech, as long as you aren’t calling them on their bullshit, Gnyii has managed to append my last comment on a thread that, as usual with the deluded religious right, is strong with the fetus-fetish. Thus, in the interests of clarity, I’ll republish the last
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: “Why Would You Ever Spend Money on the Death Penalty?” – Words from an Executioner
The entire article is available on Alternet.org, but I found this section in particular very moving. “Even when I was on the job, I was always asking, what can I do to prevent these guys before they get there? I used to bring kids down from schools. I would allow
Continue readingThe Misanthropic Bird: Faceless Adversaries
My mother often shares an underdog story from my childhood (beaming with pride and I with bemusement) that I had stood up against a bully at a young age. We were at a park, I was barely 5, and an older boy took a ball from a younger boy, which
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Abuse of Philosophy – Mary Midgley
I’ve always enjoyed(?) studying philosophy. The courses I’ve taken have always been intellectually challenging and have provided some small insight into explaining how we think about ‘stuff and things’. Fast forward to the present – the experience of Philosophy has changed. It is an inward cringe because what philosophy means
Continue readingThe Misanthropic Bird: Blood and Ketchup
Heinz ketchup has been a staple in the refrigerators of most North Americans for decades. A ‘go to’ brand of condiments that have become a integral part of family gatherings, summer BBQs and supplied by many top food chains. But a cloud has been cast on the squeaky clean company,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Religious Bigotry and the Service Industry
Religion inspires hatred. Anyone proclaiming they are chosen ones, or are better than someone else because of pious qualities x,y,z are almost always horribly unethical people. Case in point the recent frenzy in the United States featuring devout followers of Christ insulting wait staff with homophobic slurs and not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Arbourist Furrows Brow at Bathroom Behaviour
One of my responsibilities in my part time job is to ensure that the bathrooms are reasonably clean and stocked, this equates roughly to once a shift boogieing around the building with a cart full of TP and paper towel (or many times during the most dreaded of all times
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Roads: Why Are They Still Asphalt?
We live in an age of innovation. Using the great scientific advances of previous generations and implementing them in new and creative ways is huge part of our progress. No longer burdened by what we can do (mostly), the question for most fields now is how we can do it
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hard Rock – Hallelujah
We need more of this in our music scene because frankly, the omnipresent bland radio pop (A big unthankyou to CBC radio 2 for adding more of this soul withering drivel to my listening day) bores the everliving fuck out of me. So hit me with some hard rock hallelujah
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Iron Thingie 3 – The Wrap Up (-ish).
I’m not much for the Hollywood movie-culture scene. Either I’m getting to old or too smart for the usual smarm of what Hollywood has to offer; and on that note I’d like to think of my self in the later rather than the former category. Ironic self-delusion aside, pop
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 5 Abortion Myths Exposed – Debunking Forced Birth Stupidity.
The vast amount of shit the forced brith advocates spew into the interwebs lends new meaning to the word grotesque. Our anti-choice friends have been faffing on long and hard about Dr. Kermit Gosnell conveniently forgetting about Savita Halappanavar’s terminal experience with their fetid dogma . Let me spell it
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Setting the Straw Arguments Against Feminism Ablaze
Popularity? Posting “too much” on the feminism tag? Do I give two shits? Things don’t change if people don’t know about it, so off we go – a few things that feminism is actually fighting for. Oh and go read the whole post on “If I Admit That “Hating Men”
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Setting the Straw Arguments Against Feminism Ablaze
Popularity? Posting “too much” on the feminism tag? Do I give two shits? Things don’t change if people don’t know about it, so off we go – a few things that feminism is actually fighting for. Oh and go read the whole post on “If I Admit That “Hating Men”
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stupid Places on the Web – Feminism is True
The abject fuckwittery of some people never fails to astonish. Somewhere in the universe the being in charge of giving clues just died a little on the inside. I shall deal only with the header from this particular cesspool of a blog. We’ll just file this under I’ll pull remarkably
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: *Wiggle-Wiggle* Goes the Red Pen of Justice – This is to You, Who Support Murder[!!1!1!]
The RPOJ comes for thee BJ! I had a sense on this one, as I was typing my reply to the burning stupid present on this site, that my commentary might not be published. Given that dudes, with what they deem to be important opinions, tend not to like being
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Advertising and the Superbowl – Rant
Coming to work today I was listening to the CBC morning news there was the usual doom and gloom, but what was remarkable was the amount of time devoted to telling Canadians about how awesome the commercials were going to be for the Superbowl and the lengths people were
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Historical Notions – Women’s Rights to Choose.
Shall we wake up to some historical notions? Has history ever been kind to women? The short answer is no. Why? Because, Patriarchy. Today is not for learning about 101 level feminism. Today is calling down from pulpit the rage and the anger against the systematic oppression of women in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: All the f*cks the Conservative Party of Canada doesn’t give about Parliment – Love the Omnibus Bill(s).
Piano makes kitty sad. Hey there Canada. Are you enjoying the vibrant parliamentary debates going on over the contentious issues facing our country? No? Me either. The current government is running legislation through the House Fire-Hose of Commons faster than the particles being smashed at the LHC. Again, let me
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