Here’s your handbasket, what’s your hurry?
Today is World AIDS Day, which means those of us who like our activism wired, typed, and indirect can hook up with Link and Think. —Myself, I can think of no better one-stop links resource than MetaFilter, who’s doing one of their daily specials to get the word out. For instance, it’s where I found this sobering column from Joseph Riverson, which lays out some decidedly cold equations on what the next hundred years could look like; equations that are a staggering testament to the short-sighted, bone-headed, arrogant stupidity of which we’re capable. Makes me want to pick up a copy of And the Band Played On and start beating people about the head and shoulders with it. Various members of the Bush administration, to start...
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update— Again via MeFi: delfuego posts a link to the first mention of AIDS on Usenet.
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