Shhh–don’t tell the left hand! According to Robert Dreyfuss, the Chicago-based AMA–through its political action committee–gave $10,000 apiece to three loyal congressional supporters of the National Rifle Association, “even as it endorsed gun control in the name of public health” (New Republic, June 22).
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Where can we find the elite, business-oriented architects who will say this now? Gerald Danzer of the University of Illinois at Chicago quotes Daniel Burnham’s Chicago Plan in the new book Envisioning the City: “The Lake front by right belongs to the people. It affords their one great unobstructed view, stretching away to the horizon, where water and clouds seem to meet….The Lake is living water, ever in motion, and ever-changing in color and in the form of its waves. Across its surface comes the broad pathway of light made by the rising sun; it mirrors the ever-changing forms of the clouds, and it is illumined by the glow of the evening sky. Its colors vary with the shadows that play upon it. In its every aspect it is a living thing….Not a foot of its shores should be appropriated by individuals to the exclusion of the people.”
Barebacking “may threaten the social order,” warns Gordon Nary, editor of the Chicago-based Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (June). “If advertisements on the Internet and in some gay and other sex-oriented publications are any accurate indication, there are tens of thousands of individuals whose sexual gratification is based on the risk of the ‘gift’ of HIV as it is officially termed in barebacking argot. The ‘gift’ in some of these advertisements is often referred to in sacramental terms as if communion with the human immunodeficiency virus is somehow parallel to communion with God.”
