hell’s handmaiden

ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES: It is all very weird, because women do naturally grow hair on their legs and arms and in their armpits. The body does this, even in a good wingnut woman, and usually it is the wingnuts who argue that women are ___________ (insert some negative female characteristic here) naturally, biologically and unavoidably, and that the Bible decrees it so, too. But when it comes to the perfectly natural and possibly god-given body hair on women, these wingnuts and many other Americans go bonkers. Shave, you slut!, they screech. Because those who don’t shave are Evil.  <>

51% Think President Bush Doing Ok: Mark, most people think 51% approval is damned crappy.  This is nothing to crow about. In fact, I think it is rather comical that the best you can do is cite this survey. That is far from being annoyed.

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Dembski issues a challenge, and an unbelievably inane challenge it is.

Take the goo depicted in the photo below, autoclave it until none of the organic material here belongs to living cells (i.e., till all the cells are dead), and then try to reconstitute life without teleological guidance.

The Primordial Goo | Uncommon Descent

Dembski has issued an altered version of a challenge made by Behe concerning bacteria. Behe’s challenge is absurd, but Demski’s alterations push that absurdity into the patently insane.

Behe’s experiment is absurd and it takes precious little thought to figure out why. First, as you don’t bother to clarify, I assume you mean Behe’s experiment with bacteria.

The following hardly needs comment, really.

Not one doctor asked about the consequences of not acquiescing to the tube; none openly worried that acquiescence might not be the same thing as consent; none voiced the concern that pulling out a nose tube funneled down the back of one’s throat to the top of one’s stomach might, in some circumstances, be painful, and that failure to do that might at best be a weak form of consent.The scene is disturbing in light of confirmed reports, just four months after my visit, that striking detainees had been strapped into restraint chairs during and immediately after force-feeding in order to prevent, according to officials, purging and asphyxiation that might result from being fed in a prostrate position. Some detainees alleged that while in the chair they were force-fed not only nutrients but also diuretics and laxatives. The result was that they urinated and defecated on themselves.

I like video games. Mostly I defend them. But not this one. This is severely warped.

The game is just what it sounds like: players traverse a 2-D world taking on the roles of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold as they shoot up their high school. After committing suicide, the characters then journey to hell, where they battles demons. The free PC game has been downloaded more than 250,000 times since its release in April 2005, according to game creator Danny Ledonne, and has sparked outrage from victims’ families and media watchdog groups, as well as mixed reviews from gamemakers.