The Age of Aids: On PBS Tonight!

Tonight is part two of a four-hour documentary on the AIDS crisis, as filmed by Frontline, on WTVS, the legendary Detroit PBS channel. I'm about to watch 90 minutes of the first two hours, having only realized its existence at 5 to 12 last night, during a Letterman commercial. [Sigh.] It looks brilliant, and I would encourage anyone to make plans to tape it [or TiVo, whatever]. It's all about its early rise in Africa to where we're at now -- and keep in mind, Africa's the canary in the coal mine, people. Check it out. (The link has a thingie you can watch to get a feel for the program.) And this is why I have cable.

"By the time the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in America, 250,000 Americans were infected. By the time the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in Africa, millions were infected. "