Magnum Opus: Reflections on the Bicameral Mind
  A paean to psychotropic drugs and altered states of consciousness; I still enjoy the same glimpses of Paradise that energized this 1968 essay, but I would certainly modify much of its social science...
  A Measure Most Grim
  In my address book are the names of 115 friends and acquaintances who've been diagnosed with AIDS. What has happened to them?
  Mobutu Letter
  Advice to President-for-Life Mobutu as to how to lead a heroic counterattack against the rebels.
  A Modest Proposal
  It's sometimes hard to get gay men to practice safer sex. Why not hire beautiful rent boys to show them how it's done?
  My Failed HIV Initiative
  An account of my abortive attempt to get the Feds to sponsor nationwide bleach distribution so that IDUs could disinfect their rigs.
   

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