NYC's rate of new HIV infections is three times that of the rest of the country. Based on a new model for tracking recent infections developed by the Centers for Disease Control, city health officials estimated that 72 out of every 100,000 New Yorkers contracted the virus that causes AIDS in 2006, compared with 23 out of every 100,000 individuals in America. Overall, 4,800 New Yorkers became infected with HIV that year, including 3,863 New York City residents.According to the department's calculations, 50% of the new infections — about 2,372 cases — occurred among men who had sex with other men, while 8%, or 372, came from intravenous drug use. Full story...
The woman hit on the head with her Bible in last Friday's melee in the Castro went on Bill O'Reilly last night to claim that her group doesn't seek the conversions of gays.
Over on Huffington Post, Phil Zuckerman makes an interesting comparison between very religious nations and relatively secular ones in respect to the Christiantists' claim that God smites heathen nations.
Unhappy news from the Washington Times:
President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military's decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this issue say.
From the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins:
The surest way to lose the culture war is refusing to fight.
The Clintons have passed the Obama team's vetting process in Hillary's candidacy for Secretary of State.
In which they makes signs and welcome home total strangers.
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INTP: The ThinkersThe logical and analytical type.
The world's largest and brightest LED billboard lit up in Times Square last night. Via New York Times:
The new Walgreens sign going live in Times Square Thursday is not the largest LED-based sign in the world, but its developers believe that it is the most complex, both in terms of its construction and operation.
The Sun UK is reporting that Michael Jackson has converted to Islam.
The skint superstar, 50, donned Islamic garb to pledge allegiance to the Koran in a ceremony at a pal’s mansion in Los Angeles, The Sun can reveal.
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