The Bush administration has not yet lifted the regulation barring people with HIV from entering the United States, despite the law lifting the ban overwhelmingly passed by the Congress and signed by president Bush last July. Yesterday, they simply reiterated their previous plans to “streamline” the process, which, in fact, does nothing but make it more bureaucratically cumbersome for temporary visitors with HIV to enter the country as tourists or for conferences.

Andrew Sullivan, on September 20 of last year. I had no idea this ban existed, did you?

McSweeney's: Song Titles, Before Editing for Language Efficiency and Clarity.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/10JackSchneider,MosesRifkin,andPaulSacc...

“My Wings Feel a Stirring of Air Beneath Them. Is That Air You? Methinks Yes”

“I Have Looked for Quite Some Time, but, Alas, the Object of My Search Has Eluded Me”

“Caroline, You Are Delectable”

“Baby, You Hit Me Once, and When You Did, All I Could Think Was That I Would Relish Your Doing It Once More”

“It Is Morning and You Are Glorious, but I Am Still Unclear About What the Story Is”

“I Have a Primate Made of Copper and Zinc”

“Up There, Where the Clouds Are, Is Lucy, With Her Precious Carbon-Based Gemstones That Required Extreme Pressure and Temperatures of More Than 2,192 Degrees Fahrenheit to Become What They Are”

“It Is Impossible for You, or Anyone Else for That Matter, to Purchase Love For or From Me”

“Hey. What’s Up? It’s London”

Odds of Dying in a Terrorist Attack

http://eyewashstation.blogspot.com/2007/11/odds-of-dying-in-terrorist-attack....

You are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident than from a terrorist attack

You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack

You are six times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack

You are eight times more likely to die from accidental electrocution than from a terrorist attack

You are 11,000 times more likely to die in an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane

You are 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack

You are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack

You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack

You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack

You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack

You are nine times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack

You are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist