Today, of course, is World AIDS Day. Anybody still celebrate AIDS Day anymore? Begun in 1988, AIDS Day celebrates AIDS, the world’s first political disease.<\/p>\n
Now lost in a sea of other diseases and crises, I think AIDS and World AIDS Day played an important role in the regression of our world (in addition to an amusing sideplot once in an episode of\u00a0Seinfeld<\/em>). AIDS, as I said, was the world’s first political disease. Now\u00a0every<\/em> disease is political. In fact, every\u00a0thing<\/em> is political as of December 2014. Weather? Political. Sports? Political. Christmas? Political.<\/p>\n Good luck trying to put that genie back in the bottle. It’ll be tougher than getting ol’ Cosmo Kramer to wear an AIDS ribbon at a parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, of course, is World AIDS Day. Anybody still celebrate AIDS Day anymore? Begun in 1988, AIDS Day celebrates AIDS, the world’s first political disease. Now lost in a sea of other diseases and crises, I think AIDS and World … Continue reading