Did Rush Limbaugh's 'AIDS Update' Mock the Deaths of Gay People?
Limbaugh would later say he regretted the segment as it made fun of people who were dying excruciating deaths.
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Limbaugh would later say he regretted the segment as it made fun of people who were dying excruciating deaths.
Power outages, distributed generation, and energy’s role in the pandemic topped this year’s list. This year has been profoundly challenging. A global health crisis and the impacts of measures to stop it, violence against African-Americans, and wildfires in the western US have shaken us as individuals and a community. This tumult has stimulated the researchers and graduate students at the Energy Institute to ask new questions and revisit old ones. We hope the research, analysis and insights shared through the Energy Institute Blog this year have helped our readers navigate the year and thi...
Another grim milestone: More than 300,000 people have died from the novel coronavirus in the U.S. so far. It's an awful marker in what NPR's Will Stone calls "a generational tragedy — one still unfolding in every corner of the country — that leaves in its wake an expanse of grief that cannot be captured in a string of statistics.” COVID is America’s leading cause of death this month, outstripping even cancer and heart disease, reports the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. Speaking of IHME, their model now projects half a million deaths by Apr...