Mike Tidmus

The Oklahoma theocrats aren’t just coddling healthcare workers who want to cite their religion as an excuse not to perform their jobs. No. They want to make sure doctors can’t get sued for not telling the truth to women and allowing them to make informed decisions. These ‘special rights’ for the religionists have to be [...]

YouTube ad links Sam Brownback and religious reich leader Lou Engle (video: KansasDemocrats at YouTube) The Democratic Party in Kansas is using the video above to connect Senator Sam Brownback to his former roommate in Washington, DC, the demon-obsessed ‘Shakey’ Lou Engle. The quivering hate-preacher was just in Kampala, Uganda praising that African nation’s American-backed [...]

Here’s blogger Joe Jervis‘ take on ACT UP’s in-Obama’s-face anti-AIDS demo that took place yesterday — Thursday, May 13, 2010 — at the St Regis Hotel, New York, New York. Joe. My. God.: NYC: Eight Activists Arrested At Massive Protest Over Obama’s AIDS Funding joemygod.blogspot.com Eight AIDS activist were arrested in Manhattan late Wednesday night in a [...]

Towleroad: Eight arrested at massive rally in NYC as activists demand Obama fulfill global aids promises (photo: via Towleroad) “Obama is not my president. Obama is not your president. Obama does not like AIDS. Obama does not like gays. Now what are we going to do about it? Because we continue to sit on the [...]

Hoa Quach, writing at San Diego News Network, has a piece up on the truly pathetic, and probably criminal, state of HIV/AIDS care at a couple of flagship HIV service providers in San Diego County: Clinics, HIV services come under county scrutiny By Hoa Quach Allegations of misused federal funds, poor patient treatment, and a [...]

Paving the Way: Harborside Medical Marijuana Center, Oakland California (video: HunCivLibUnion at YouTube)

Radical religious reich CRACKPOT Lou ‘Shakey’ Engle, who bore false witness about not advocating on behalf of the heinous ‘exterminate-the-gays’ genocide bill that is being considered in Uganda, is calling for “acts of martyrdom” in his war against gay people, women, non-believers, and goblins, demons and other made-up shit. If ever anyone deserved to have [...]

More pointless dumbassery from the City of San Diego: Fourteen years have been squandered trying to thwart the will of California voters who decided in 1996 to make medical cannabis available for compassionate use by AIDS, cancer and other patients with serious and well-defined medical conditions. Now these clowns are going to argue about whether [...]

Fox interviews baptist pastor Wiley Drake, the former Vice-President of the Southern Baptist Convention (audio: iloveJesus420 at YouTube) Wiley Drake is not just praying for the death of the President of the United States of America, the Orange County, California pastor and his followers are also praying for the deaths of every member of the [...]

Separate is inherently unequal (video: Sean Chapin at YouTube) Sean Chapin: Video depicting a recent case of devastating discrimination against a senior gay couple (Clay and Harold) in Sonoma County, California, and how this case powerfully illustrates that marriage for straight couples and anything less for gay couples is inherently unequal. This video is a [...]

Although the dust cloud isn’t directly over Speaker Pelosi’s house or remotely near Chez Harry Reid, sadly, there are Americans foolish enough and ignorant enough and gullible enough to believe the real voice of the GOP — Jabba the Idiot — when he claims an Icelandic volcano that has been impacting European air travel is [...]

Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV – let’s get rational (video: TED Talks Director at YouTube) TED: Armed with bracing logic, wit and her “public-health nerd” glasses, Elizabeth Pisani reveals the myriad of inconsistencies in today’s political systems that prevent our dollars from effectively fighting the spread of HIV. Her research with at-risk populations — [...]

“Friends have warned me to be careful of disclosing my HIV and not tell random people. We’ve all heard the countless horror stories of abuse, ignorance, violence … so what the hell is going on? Why do I have this nagging feeling the gay scene is losing touch with what’s really important – compassion for [...]

Thursday, San Diego’s Republican District Attorney, Bonnie Dumanis, suffered a crushing defeat in her relentless crusade to persecute, specifically, Eugene Davidovich and, generally, other medical marijuana patients. Dumanis defied the will of California voters and, at taxpayers expense, took the medical cannabis issue all the way to the United States Supreme Court, where she lost. [...]

Off That (Rationalist Anthem), by Baba Brinkman (video: babasword at YouTube) Can’t get enough of that hip-hop skepticism about whack cures, AIDS denialism and dumb-ass superstitionism? Check out Baba Brinkman’s Natural Selection Rap and Brinkman’s astonishing performance at last December’s 9 Lessons and Carols for Godless People at the Hammersmith Apollo theater in London. (tips: [...]