paul – I think the ABC approach is debatable, with people of good will on both sides of it. However, my main point is that Fischer doesn’t know what he is talking about. He argues that Uganda is doing one thing and then advocates another – Stop, Stop and Don’t Shoot.

“Pastor Warren ought to be down with that” – What is he, a rap star?

And he doesn’t have animosity towards gays? Give me a break!

It was an extra-special super secret part of ABC that the militant homosexual activists have kept from public view. Cuz teh homosexuals are really powerful in Uganda, you know.

Seriously, I know that in the early years of the epidemic, alkyl nitrites (“poppers”) were invoked as an explanation for the relatively high incidence of Karposi’s Sarcoma among gay men with AIDS (but not among AIDS patients generally).

However, it’s long since been confirmed that KS is caused by herpes 8 (HHV-8), which spreads among promiscuous gay men by sexual contact, just as HIV does.

And it’s my understanding (which could be wrong) that alkyl nitrites had essentially been exonerated as a contributing or aggravating factor in AIDS, mainly because the immune-suppressant effects of these drugs tend to weak, temporary, and self-reversing. (Note: It’s not that poppers are totally harmless; it’s that their effects on the immune system aren’t potent enough, or permanent enough, to adequately account for the total immune shutdown seen in patients with full-blown AIDS.)