To whom it may concern: The truth may not always be popular, but it will always remain the truth. Alabamans, perhaps more than any of the 49 other sovereign lands that comprise these United States of America, have possessed a… Read More ›
Alabama
The Deep South: Geography as a Risk Factor
Red America forms a thick, inland L in the flat midsection of our country, bordered as much by geography as by political preference. The Rocky Mountains and Mississippi River shepherd the younger constituents of this conservative nation-within-a-nation down towards the… Read More ›
Alabama Brings Back “Separate But Equal” for HIV+ Prisoners
“People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts. No animal could ever be so cruel as a man—so artfully, so artistically cruel.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky There are few people in… Read More ›
deepsouth: a film review
“Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos… Read More ›
Southern Discomforts
by Drew Gibson My interest piqued this morning when I saw a link to a BBC News Magazine article on the current fiscal crisis in Europe with the sub-header: “Lessons from US history for the crisis-hit eurozone.” I assumed the… Read More ›
Sensing a Pattern Here?
Courtesy of the National Association of People With AIDS and the blog From Here To Eternity (www.dgsmith.org) is a map of the states that contain the 2,357 HIV positive Americans who are still on ADAP waiting lists and still with… Read More ›
