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“Baby AIDS,” Mandatory Newborn Testing, And Preventing Mother-To-Baby Transmission Of HIV

Posted on 2/15/2007 by Ampersand

Right-wingers are attacking Democrats for scuttling “the Ryan White Early Diagnosis Grant Program,” or as they often call it, the “baby AIDS” bill. Why are liberals against helping babies with AIDS, they cry? Isn’t helping AIDS babies something we can … Continue reading →

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc. | 10 Comments  

Added “fancy archives” and “subscribe to comments” plugins

Posted on 8/25/2006 by Ampersand

I’ve added a fancy archives gizmo to the sidebar (inspired by how much I like the archive format at Capitalism Bad, Tree Pretty). I like it once it’s loaded, and it certainly makes the sidebar cleaner-looking, but it also slows … Continue reading →

Posted in Site and Admin Stuff | 1 Comment  

“Alas” was offline for about 16 hours

Posted on 7/20/2005 by Ampersand

As many of you noticed, “Alas” was offline for about 16 hours, from late yesterday afternoon to early this morning. We’re back online now, obviously. The rest of this post is a detailed discussion of what went wrong and what … Continue reading →

Posted in Site and Admin Stuff | 12 Comments  

“Alas” may be having an unexpected hiatus

Posted on 3/6/2005 by Ampersand

Well, our server is shaking us off like fleas – either because “Alas” has attracted a Denial of Service attack or because it’s too popular and the bandwidth is too high, I’m not sure which is going on. (You can … Continue reading →

Posted in Site and Admin Stuff | 4 Comments