Very quick UK update...

Donald Trump: stupid or incompetent? Which is worse or more tragic?

I’ve played a good amount of golf for the past 40 years, oftentimes at bush league muni courses, and until today, I have NEVER seen a jackass drive a cart across a green!!

It’s like scooping a giant hole in the ice of an ice hockey ring.

It’s the equivalent of wearing golf cleats on the court in pickup basketball.

How do we get these younger folks to understand what it was like? I remember the fear. I remember the AIDS quilt and ACT UP. I remember people dying. It was scary.

I feel the same way. My daughter (13) and her friends just have NO concept of what it was like to grow up in the 80s and 90s. They hear about AIDS and sort of shrug their shoulders, thinking about PREp and the cocktail and all the gains made in the past 10 years. I think about losing friends and family members, and…

How old are your students? If they are kids, I’d mention Ryan White too.

So many young gay guys act as if HIV/Aids is nothing. I know there are drugs that prevent transmission and it’s no longer a quick death sentence, but the drugs aren’t fail safe and there are other STD/STIs that they can contract.

This makes me crazy too. I was a middle schooler in 1990, before AZT came on the market and tens of thousands of Americans were diagnosed every year. My parents, teachers, and coaches were all terrified about HIV. Sex Ed was comprehensive. practical, and constant, if a little on the scary side (but none of this…

I’ve been saying well before 11/9 Trump is a threat to the public health. God knows what would happen if we had another Ebola crisis or even flu season. The man is a anti vaxxer. Oh ok skeptic. His VP as Indiana governor let a HIV crisis fester. He appointed a anti vaxxer as HHS secretary. If someone recommended Jenny…

People lost jobs,had their kids taken from their custody, were burned out of their houses, watched everybody they knew in their circle of friends die. Those who are too young to remember the eighties really can’t grasp that it was a plague; both in the sense of a virus spreading unchecked and in how it was treated (or…

Can they make money on it? If yes it’s dropsy for everyone

Opioids are the modern day equivalent I’d say. Until we treat addiction as a public health issue instead of a public safety issue (amongst other things such as doctors proscribing serious opioid based pain killers for any surgical procedure) that problem isn’t going anywhere.

Me too— OMG I wanted to slap Bob Dylan through the pages, lol. His first appearance, when he’s holding court and assuming he can just have any woman he wants, then throws a diva fit at her because she’s married.... Then fast forward to him showing up at her door after she got successful.... pfffft! She’s…

Yeah, the way they both managed to come off the high of the celebrity scene, and come out of the drugs [eventually], and still stay friends.... I kinda really loved that. What the media of that time would do to women with a ‘weird’ bent like their love of the occult &c., christ, I can’t even countenance putting up…

He’s probably pretending to be more old for sympathy. Wasn’t he pretending to be blind (or at least playing up whatever was wrong with him)?

It reminds me of the advice my mom gave me on dealing with inappropriate behavior from a colleague: “write down every bad thing they say verbatim with date and time so if you need to report them you have a record.”

He’ll wait until the Senate vote to acquit Trump after impeachment in 2019, right after the final Senator casts their vote. Fucking evil prick.

It happened to me and Mr Mars a while back (we had to move from San Francisco back to his dad’s place, then got booted from there and moved in with my mom and stepdad. Took us quite a while to get back on our feet). As difficult as it may be, at least you have (as we did) someone in your life who is willing to take…