hell’s handmaiden

… about how we don’t torture.

Read the testimony from Qasim Mehaddi Hilas (PDF– 2 pages) , yet? If not, you’ve probably heard rumors and didn’t want to believe it. Or maybe not? Maybe you are such a hard line “whatever it takes” Bush defending flag waving Islam hating hawk that you just don’t care about things like rape, for example.

Remember, the General who investigated Abu Ghraib– Gen. Taguba– concluded that the abuse was systematic. That means it wasn’t the work of a just few bad seeds.

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With friends like these you don’t people like me telling the world that ID is a front for religion.

Christian thinkmag wars over intelligent design?: I have cause for hope, the tiny knot of genuinely orthodox Christians who hope to rescue Darwinism as it actually is for Christ have no influence whatever.

Post-Darwinist: Christian thinkmag wars over intelligent design?: I have cause for hope

Brilliant, Denyse. She goes on to demonstrate how strongly ideology trumps substance.

Right then. The book was allegedly written to Southern Baptist “pastors”, and therein lies its primary usefulness. It is likely to prove an excellent crap detector: Any pastor who takes Wilson seriously should be defrocked.

Denyse O’Leary is on a rant about ‘Darwinian’ medicine, arguing that, well, it doesn’t really matter what the source of the problem is anyway, running through rather flippant treatments of alcoholism and obesity in the process.

…it hardly matters when they appeared or who - besides immediate ancestors and sibs, and people who live nearby - has them.

Consider, for example, an illness for which there is apparently a genetic predisposition: alcoholism. Fundamentally, the patient has decisions to make (Will I drink or not? Will I get drunk or not?) What if Alley Oop had the same problem? What if he didn’t?

Recently, I posted on net neutrality. In that post, I urged readers to contact their various Senators. I followed my own advice and sent my Senators an email. One of those Senators, Sen. Wayne Allard, responded… at least, his office responded. Below is a portion of that response.

The Stewart Consortium has a fabulous post on the Arrogance of Cheney

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