Today is World AIDS Day. While the Wombat File isn't officially participating in the Link and Think project, we were listening to Simon Schama talk about maps this morning on Studio 360, and we noticed this this arresting visual summary of the current state of the pandemic, supplied by the BBC. (link via today's special edition of MeFi.)

It's a lot of dying. We hope, as the current administration secures the Homeland and smokes out the Evil One, that they think for a few minutes about the microscopic, viral "terrorists" who will not be available for trial at Mr. Ashcroft's celebrated tribunals.