Nate Knows Nada

I love this!  A company in England has manufactured an inflatable church!

Pump up the pulpit!

In this morning’s NY Times, we learn that Bayer Drug sold possibly HIV-infected blood clotting factor to Asian countries, even after it knew that there was a possibility of infecting people with the drug. Take a look here.

I’m not surprised,. but I’m still aghast.  I wish I had more time to process this here, but there’s two things going on.  First, there’s a form of good-old-fashioned racism, especially regarding Asians and disease.  Take a look at another article on the topic.  But there’s also a similar sense that expendable people — like gays — are permitted to get AIDS or even have it given to them.  Someone at Bayer decided that Asians were expendable.