[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAw7oot55tY&hl=en_US&fs=1&] David Rasnick, PhD: Do ARVs Save Lives? The raw data Rethinking AIDS Conference November 6-8, 2009 Oakland, CA
Feb 172010
Feb 152010
“Let’s go to lunch,” Tracy said, seeing how frustrated I was after discovering that I had miscalculated the distance needed to rough-in a door that I was helping her install in a newly framed wall. “Fine. How about chile rellenos?” “I know this restaurant,” she said, “but I don’t remember the name… down on Southwest […more]
Feb 122010
Did I ever tell you that I used to be a “database specialist” in the marketing department of an HMO? Well, I did, and it was a very enlightening opportunity to observe the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of corporate America and our so-called “health care” system. My job was to parse data. By parse, I mean to […more]
Feb 122010
Tony Lance knows about gay men, because he is one. He has spent years studying and developing a theory that explains how and why so many of us develop poor health and damaged immune systems. Lance proposes that the disease affecting so many gay men is actually caused by disruption and destruction of the intestinal […more]
Feb 112010
Anyone who has lived or grown up on or near a farm in the midwest, will no doubt recognize one of these steel grain storage bins. They come in various sizes and are used to store grain destined for an area storage elevator or feed for livestock. We had several of these bins at various […more]
Feb 082010
A recent experience drove home for me that the rotted foundation for explaining AIDS is still trying to support some pretty inexcusable medical practices at local doctors’ offices. My partner Michael is taking a class to get his EMS (Emergency Medical Services) certificate. One of the course requirements is that he get a series of […more]
Feb 062010
I grew up in the small farming community of Colby, Kansas. Until I was 14 years of age, I lived with my father’s extended family on a wheat and hog farm a few miles north of town. There were so many Barnett families living within a half mile of each other that some people called […more]
Feb 022010
Most of my work the last few decades have involved that interface… that point of contact between human beings and the computer. I’ve written previously about my earliest experience with computers in the 1970s, while still in high school, where I advocated for the first computer programming course at Colby High School. We ran our […more]
Feb 012010
I found some old video recordings of the televised public hearings for Kansas City’s gay rights ordinance 20 years ago. Between the poor quality of the original VCR tapes and the transition to digital, they look even older than that. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dTZTuoWoQE&hl=en_US&fs=1&] You gotta’ love those glasses! City council committee hearings here are televised on […more]