Chess, HIV & Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: Listening to Local Voices

1. Wednesday was National HIV Testing Day.

(I know, I know -- another holiday designed to sell greeting cards.)

But, in all seriousness, more than 200,000 Americans don't know they have HIV. Put another way, twenty percent of all the Americans with HIV don't know they have the virus.

So if you're sexually active -- even a little sexually active -- it's safer to get tested and know than to assume.

"If you're in a longtime, committed relationship, and you think you don't need to be tested, you're may be right," . "If you have any doubts at all (past or present), testing is free, fast and pain-free."

to learn more about HIV; because, even if you're not infected, knowledge is better than ignorance.

2. Did you know the guy who runs the Abraham Lincoln blog is from Northeast Ohio?

Better yet, did you know that in addition to being an indispensable well of knowledge regarding the 16th president, he also reviewed Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?

See what the man who knows more about Lincoln than almost anyone .

3. Our newest blogger, , is a whiz at chess.

But he wasn't always that way. He had to lose a lot before he finally started winning.

See what Germany has to say about .

4. We conclude with the continuing adventures of , Mentor Patch's first comic strip.