I’ve been waiting for a conservative take on the popular support for gay marriage in Massachusetts. Now we have one. No, poll numbers are not the same as an actual vote. But the argument that this shoud be opposed because judges are foisting it on an unwilling populace has to be revised. (Bonus rhetorical dig: if a 4-3 decision on gay marriage is judicial tyranny, what is a 5-4 decision resolving a presidential election?)
CORRECTION: “In your essay on Rich and “Angels In America,” you assert that AZT was available as an anticancer drug before it had been used in HIV disease.
Although your contention in no way undermines your essay, it is wrong. AZT was synthesized in 1964 by a scientist, funded by the US government, seeking a cure for cancer. It failed as an anti-cancer drug and was not used again until the AIDS epidemic. I believe a study showing the efficacy of AZT in the treatment of AIDS patients with PCP was published in the New York Times in 1986, and it became commercially available at that time.”
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