When my daughter grows up,

and I tell her about how bad the AIDS pandemic was, I hope that she can only relate to what she has read about it because it has been cured. Unfortunately, ignorance and silence are still deadly.

Can this man cure AIDS? (Newsweek)

The Root asks for stories about how AIDS has affected you.

What if they lived? (The Root)

UN: AIDS infections are stabilizing (MSNBC)

 

Food Stamps, continued.

Earlier this month I wrote about the alarming statistic that 90 percent of African American children and half of all children in this country will have received aid in the form of food stamps before they reach adulthood.

Yesterday, the New York Times published a four page article

Goal for the holiday season and beyond

Joy that remains and sustains.

Kids getting tazed.

That sort of concerns me. On one hand, I know that there are some rowdy kids out there, but on the other, my son is 12 and while he is not exactly a candidate for a youth camp, I don’t like the thought that should he be in the wrong place at the wrong time not reacting the right way to law enforcement, he might get tasered. I’ve seen incidents where adults went into cardiac arrest after being rough handled and tasered, so the policy of doing this to kids bothers me.