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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