Dominic Holden

Years of delivering the Seattle Times taught me Chihuahuas were covered in teeth and claws. Sharp and mean, they had no redeeming qualities. I clung to this opinion without further consideration. That is, until my niece and nephew determined they needed one. Daily, in unison, they chanted: “Chihuahua! Chihuahua! Chihuahua!” An entire winter: “Chi-Wha-Wha!” I resisted, I really did. But my stubbornness was no match for their tenacity. Or this little guy…

Named Pixel, he is now three years old, more adorable than the thing that spawns Gremlins, and can run like the dickens. This morning he will enter the regional Chihuahua races. Behold:

If you can think of anything more absurd, go ahead and pipe up. Otherwise, head to PETCO. (Saturday, May 19, 10 a.m., 12040 NE 85th St, Kirkland, WA, ankle guards advised.)

Oh, this is rich…

Documentary filmmaker Gary Null started following the lives of young, gay men in the 1970s and watched while many who frequented the gay bars — with sex and drugs as their mantra — ended up dying a mysterious death that today we know as AIDS.

He never believed, and still doesn’t, that the human immunodeficiency virus by itself causes AIDS, which today is an accepted truth in conventional medicine.

The article brazenly continues…

In his film, Null describes what he and others in the non-HIV camp believe has destroyed the immune systems in AIDS sufferers: repeated infections with a number of sexually transmitted diseases, too much drug and alcohol use, and massive amounts of antibiotics often used in gay bars of the 1970s and early 1980s in an attempt to prevent infection. The immune system couldn’t take the assault from all these different directions and shut down, leaving the person open to a host of opportunistic infections, Null said he believed.

He and others in the film say they believe that AIDS in Africa and other hard-hit countries isn’t HIV at all but rather infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, influenced by poor environmental conditions and a lack of medicines for diseases in general.

Null will be on hand after showing the film this Sunday evening at Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre if you’d like to beat some sense into him.