Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo and Robert Kim in The Nation discover that funding of AIDS programs in the Bush administration is a rather sleazy shell game. Kim also raises the question of the religious right's likely role in future Bush allocations of funding, and notes the curious appointment of Tommy Thompson to head the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria at a time when Bush administration money is bypassing the underfunded organization. I'll keep putting up links to stories about this subject as I find them. I still say this Bush initiative is far more about Jesus than about saving lives.