My Disease and Civilization class recently jumped from studying tuberculosis to discussing the first twenty years of the AIDS epidemic. The articles we read all spoke about the vast leaps that were made in the first two decades after AIDS…
Scott Gration is President Obama’s handpicked special envoy to Darfur and an Air Force General, so maybe that’s why he’s bombing.
Barron Young Smith at the New Republic is reporting that Gration is losing the trust of the resistance in…
Tonight, President Obama will focus on a ‘game changer’ in the healthcare debate. In a speech to a strangely fractious joint session of Congress, he will have more than a mountain to climb as Blue Dogs, Liberal Nannys, Obstructionist…
For all the things I’ve been critical of Barack Obama on this blog, there are a smattering of positive things to report as well. A lot more than I can say for his predecessor. But, the Washington Post reports this…
The death of the Senate Lion is not only a big blow for healthcare reform in America (or, hopefully, maybe a catalyst in memory?) but it is also one for gay rights activists. Kennedy was a huge champion of gay…
In the hemorrhaging black and white debate that has arisen over the inclusion of that scary “public option”, the nuance has been lost on defining the difference between “universal healthcare” and the “public option”. For some odd reason, the two terms seem almost…
Digging Deeper: Who are the uninsured?
For the past two weeks, Actology has brought you the coverage of Rachel Maddow in exposing the corporate groups largely behind orchestrating town hall protests throughout the nation. Today, we begin the first in…
While it’s silly to even think that it was a point of contention, the reversal of policy from the Bush Administration is great news for gay and lesbians who can now be counted. (Maybe, it’s good? Soon the government…
A few weeks ago I learned that the state parks in my home state of Pennsylvania would be shut down, another sign of a severely wounded economy. There was no money to keep them maintained. But, state parks are the…
It was 1993 when the Hawaii Supreme Court waded into the culture wars, ruling that the state of Hawaii must allow gays and lesbians to marry. Sixteen years later, a bill to legalize civil unions in that state still has…
