Since I started Virally Suppressed over three and a half years, I have done my utmost to provide my readers with investigative journalism and sociopolitical commentary that is engaging, enlightening and empathic. I have probably failed in this endeavor about… Read More ›
In May of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson gave the commencement address at the University of Michigan and first laid out the framework of what would become his vision for America’s “Great Society.” In the speech, LBJ reflected on the… Read More ›
Your town’s 150 year old newspaper folded a few years back because of dwindling readership, increased printing costs and the rise of internet news. The big city next to you lost its afternoon paper 15 years ago and only has… Read More ›
For many of us who come to find that our lives have become defined by the pursuit of some social good or the eradication of its attendant evil, it is possible to trace back the origins of our passions to… Read More ›
Well, I suppose it’s been about 5 or 6 months since I last posted here on Virally Suppressed and began writing what I hoped would become a honest-to-goodness book about my 39-day trip up, down and across America. That book… Read More ›
I am off to find My America. Not My as in Mine, but My as in Ours. From Bangor to Barstow, this is all our inheritance, bequeathed to us by those that helped make it and make us: I will… Read More ›
We at Virally Suppressed have decided to climb down from our safe internet perch and enter the world of print, if only for a minute. We are creating posters for the website that will be featured at HIV testing sites… Read More ›
That’s right. Virally Suppressed now has it’s very own Pinterest account and is slowly become ever-more internet literate. If you have a Pinterest account, come follow us. Our page is: http://pinterest.com/suppressthis/ If you don’t know what in the Sam Hill… Read More ›
What does it mean to suppress something? Like so much of our language, the word itself comes from Latin: suppressus, from supprimere. It meant to hold down—to push under. The word sounds violent and malicious, like leaning your weight upon… Read More ›
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