Bi-Annual Check-In Thread

It occurs to me that there are a number of people I haven't seen posting or commenting in months (e.g., jblaque. Everybody okay out there? Check in and say Hi. We worry.

Potential Breakthrough In Fighting AIDS

"Researchers have discovered that if they eliminate a cholesterol membrane surrounding the virus, HIV cannot disrupt communication among disease-fighting cells and the immune system returns to normal.

Read all of it -- it's not a long article. But it fills me with hope. Because it sounds like one of those, "-- oh, jeez! That's what it's doing! We can deal with that!" breakthroughs.

Fuck. Yeah.