Articles from Hell's Handmaiden

Bush Screws the Troops? kinky!
2007-05-20 10:11:41
Having just posted “The Republican Burden? poor things” consisting of a link to a snarky list of Republican illogic, and having been called to defend a couple of points listed, I was thrilled to come across Indigent A-hole’s account of Bush’s sexual escapades with the troops. Nothing like screwing a serviceman, right? Yee-haaah! ...

Social Commentary
2007-05-20 09:39:29
War, in a nutshell: by Calvin and Hobbes. Maybe we should email this to the Bush team? ...

Sex or Cancer? Take your pick.
2007-05-19 11:09:36
Actually, the issue is more complicated than suggested by the title. There is a vaccine– I’ve mentioned it before– on the market now that can prevent infection with some types of the human papillomavirus (HPV). This virus causes most cases of cervical cancer, and “approximately 20 million people are currently infected“. Several states have moved to put this virus on local mandatory vaccination lists, and this move has provoked negative reactions from several different directions. The arguments behind these reactions, the motivations for these reactions seem to boil down to one of two things. The first core argument is one of morality, expressed at The Aggressive Voice as “But aren’t we supposed to discourage underage girls from a premature sexual lifestyle?” The human papillomavirus is inextricably connect with sex, and hence with morality. Well, are we? Are we as a nation supposed to promote some particular moral position? Are we as a ...
Cancer

Warming, Wars, and Security
2007-05-18 23:05:09
This, folks, is one of the great unsung dangers of global warming. Don’t take my word for it. Former US military leaders have called on the Bush administration to make major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. In a report, they say global warming poses a serious threat to national security, as the US could be drawn into wars over water and other conflicts. BBC NEWS | Americas | US generals urge climate action Global warming poses a serious threat to national security no matter what country you happen to live in. Even small temperature changes mean shifts in agriculture and water supplies. Hungry and thirsty people will fight over such things. I’ve made the point myself, most recently in Gambling with our lives and in Blogs for Hand Waving. We don’t have to take the dive into barbarism. We don’t have to, but avoiding it means addressing the problem now, even if by some miracle we are not at fault. ...

The cost of war
2007-05-18 22:44:05
War has costs. Sometimes those costs have to be paid. But I have no confidence that the cowboys who started this one even considered these costs. Zainab may be one of the 655,000 Iraqis who would be alive today if the Bush administration hadn’t launched its criminally conceived and executed war. Violence caused most of the excess deaths. But 54,000 people died from non-violent causes, such as heart disease, cancer and chronic illness. They were victims of a health care system eviscerated by mismanagement, ill-placed priorities, corruption and civil war. The body count does not come from the U.S. government — which either does not bother to track, or won’t release, the Iraqi death toll — but from a survey by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Baghdad’s Al Mustansiriya University, published in The Lancet. AlterNet: War on Iraq: Iraqi Health Care: Hostage to War ...

Holy War from Blog4Brains
2007-05-17 17:44:50
Blog4Brains has a truly fantastic series of posts examining “why ?believers? and ?non-believers? may never be able to agree to disagree”. The series at Blog4Brains is a little difficult to follow, so here it is in a managable format. The Introduction Part One Part Two It is a minor point, overall, in the series but the following stuck in my mind. Throughout my life I have always observed the ferociousness in which the ?Believers? attack the ?non-Believes? when the ?non-Believers? point of view is stated. Part Two I suppose I’ve witnessed the same thing too many times. Ironically, these same people take every opurtunity available to express their own views and moan about being oppressed if anyone hints at suggesting that they shouldn’t be allowed to, for example, use public funds to express those opinions. ...

I?m sure someone loved him?
2007-05-17 10:30:18
… but I can’t say that I’ll miss him. I feel for the family, but personally, Falwell was a hate filled man whose passing in no wise saddens me. What a legacy. A cartoon at esoterically.net/weblog pretty much sums things up. [Addendum] More fun with Falwell– Big Scary List of Falwell Quotes. May he rest in all the peace he wished on others. ...

Why Clothing Sucks? you?re kidding, right?
2007-05-17 09:48:42
I complain about religion. I complain a lot. I count it as one of the world’s great evils. But I do take care to complain about things substantial. I don’t, for example, typically complain about clothing choices. Buhrka scrubs! Can you say Dhimmitude in the UK? I think you can. It’s multiculturalism run amok. Anti-Strib: Why Islam sucks part 183 Damn those Muslims, dressing funny like they do! What psychos! Decent religions like Christianity don’t never enforce no dress codes nor make no moral judgments of a person’s character based on how they look. Oh, wait… yes they do. Ask any girl who has ever been sneered at by a good Christian because she dresses ’slutty’. Ask anyone who has ever been fool enough to show up at church in the wrong outfit. Ever wonder why preacher’s don’t wear T-Shirts on the pulpit, or why the faithful can be spotted by their haircut with about 85% accuracy? Come on, guys. Complain about Islam if you w ...

Guns and killin? and knives and garden tools, cars, rat poison?
2007-05-16 14:39:23
Planck is right. Arguing that “if nuts and sickos can’t get guns, then they’ll kill fewer people, period” is naive. The nuts and sickos will kill people anyway. He writes: Does this moron really believe that before guns were invented, almost no one was ever ever murdered? Here’s a statistic: 62% of murders in the U.S. in 1981 involved a firearm [source]. If guns didn’t exist, would all these people have skipped killing the other party? Not likely. I could easily show that states with strict gun controls have higher murder rates than those without. But so what? The urge to murder will cause a person to do it with whatever weapon he can find. Are we to ban knives, garden tools, cars, rat poison, ropes, bows and arrows, cleavers, axes, hammers, icepicks, etc.? Guns kill people and spoons made Rosie Fat How is it, then, that I can write posts like Manly Manly Men Full of Manliness where I chide the Manly Men? at ManlyMen.org for suggesting that the solu ...

The Republican Burden? poor things.
2007-05-15 11:28:09
The Lovenstein Institute is having a little fun with Republican policy. I’ve extracted some favorites: A woman can’t be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all humankind without regulation. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches, while slashing veterans’ benefits and combat pay. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health care to all Americans is socialism. Global warming and tobacco’s link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools. You are a conservative, but it is OK to spend like there is no tomorrow and run up deficits that your grandchildren will have to pay, while at the same refunding as much tax money as possible to rich people who do not need it. ...

Inmates, Guards and Abuse?
2007-05-15 11:07:25
The Conflicted Redhead tells a tale of Geraldo watching and inmate/guard sex. The big story last night was sexual abuse in U.S. prisons. Geraldo interviewed Tim Jansen, the attorney for one of the Florida guards charged with having sex with female inmates in exchange for money, alcohol and pot. Mr. Jansen said something along the lines of, “What you have here is a group of men who were having problems with their marriages and they were spending 8 hours a day with these women in prison. And these women can be manipulative. They made good men do bad things.” The Conflicted Redhead: Female Inmates Abuse Guards Redhead reacts. The nerve of these female prisoners to use the power of their position to take advantage of these guards. These poor guards had no choice but to follow the orders given to them by these manipulative and powerful women. Please! Mr. Jansen, you need to check yourself. The Conflicted Redhead: Female Inmates Abuse Guards Well, I’m conflicted, like th ...

Isn?t Jesus like no other?
2007-05-13 18:09:28
This one goes out those many many people who’ve explained to me, at length, just how unique Christianity is. Christianity, really, was unlike anything the world had ever seen. From Russel’s Teapot: Who Put the X in X-Mas? ...

Changes to the site
2007-05-13 11:26:42
The upgrade and alterations continue. I hope to finish them soon and get back to blogging. The upgrade is not responsible for the slow load times. That problem began before I started the upgrade. I discovered, much to my annoyance, that a Wordpress Theme called “3k2redux klee by Michael Heilemann & Chris J Davis” hides a god-damned site tracker in the code. … back to work. ...

Should we let Jeffrey take his gun to the Safeway?
2007-05-12 10:28:55
I mean, those slow lines are killers. Man Jeffrey Francis Cullen, a 59 year-old-man of Kingman, shot at firefighters because they refused to go and get the man?s cat out of a tree. ...

I like DocMike
2007-05-11 18:14:59
By The Book Comics: “I meet an awful lot of Christians who have absolutely no idea of the injustice, absurdity, cruelty, violence, intolerance, and contradictions the Bible contains. And still, they consider it to be the inerrant word of God. My goal is to point out some of its weaknesses and reveal the Bible for what it really is: An antiquated book of mythology assembled by an elite group of power mongers to control the minds of their contemporaries. Amen.” ...

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