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US Census 2010 will not track disability

An article by June Kronholz in The Wall Street Journal announces that the official United States Census, performed every decade, will inclu...

Heather Mills takes to the dance floor

If, like me, you have a sordid fascination with tedious reality TV, you should know that the new season of the American version of Dancing w...

All this crazy talk is driving me nuts

There's no denying it. Michele Bachmann, Republican representative for Minnesota's 6th congressional district, is an embarrassment t...

Saturday Slumgullion #29

First some new links regarding Ashley X: "Straight on till mourning" by John Hockenberry at his place, The Blogenberry: Disabilit...

Koufax nominations

The awards aren't by any means final, and I don't expect to win, but I wanted to acknowledge that The Gimp Parade was nominated (alo...

Disability Blog Carnival #9 at The 19th Floor

Carnival 9! At Mark's! I can't believe this is the ninth carnival already, and that there are always new bloggers to discover every...

On CNN's Anderson Cooper show tonight: Amanda Baggs of Ballastexistenz

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a medical corresondent at CNN will interview Amanda Baggs on the Anderson Cooper show tonight, 10 P.M. Eastern time. From...

The last ten visitors

This is a typical sample of the last ten visitors to this blog. They came through a search for: devotees porn disabled frustration porn with...

The Sparrow

I've been reading The Sparrow , by Mary Doria Russell . It's a captivating novel about a Jesuit-funded mission to contact newly-disc...

Oklahoma opens its first accessible prison

In a report out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Angel Riggs writes : Department of Corrections officials this week began moving several of the s...

Minnesota politics: Health care and some 2008 contenders

In an effort to personally keep track of 2008 candidates and where they stand on health care and disability issues, I've plans to be muc...

I am Tardy Spartacus

Better late than never, eh?

Call for Posters on Celebrating Disability Culture

Celebrating Disability Culture Call for Poster Presentations and Exhibits for our 2007 Spring Symposium on April 4th, 2007 Tell us what you ...

Music: Krip-Hop and Sins Invalid

In January, a cd of hip-hop music by disabled artists was released. It's called Krip-Hop, Vol. 1 , and information on how to get the cd ...

Saturday Slumgullion #28

The Argus-Leader of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, reports that plans to build the sign-language/Deaf community of Laurent have been scrapped....

Volkswagen pulls "jumper" ad from TV

From AdWeek : Volkswagen today said it would pull a 30-second TV spot called "Jumper," which had drawn criticism from suicide prev...

Parents sadistically abuse disabled toddler

From Book Girl at Falling Off My Pedestal , I hear about this UK couple and their unbelievable campaign of violence against a child: She wa...

In the media

Today, Thursday: On The Largest Minority , a disability radio show on WBAI, a panel of people with varied and interesting experiences of dis...

Poetry: Lucia Perillo

by Lucia Perillo from The Body Mutinies Thinking about illness after reading about Tennessee fainting goats Maybe they're brethren, thes...

A little labor history

What the poster says: The hatmakers of Danbury, Connecticut -- the United States' leading center for felt hat manufacture -- led one of ...

Poetry: Lois Keith

Another poem on disability, written by Lois Keith : Tomorrow I Am Going To Re-write The English Language Tomorrow I am going to rewrite the...

Losing my religion, part 3

In August of 2005, before my medical crisis that November, and prior to the long hospital stay and the thoughts and prayers offered by so ma...

Disability Carnival #8 at Medical Humanities

Yep, I'm late to post this, but all the links are over there , waiting to be clicked. And my fellow Minnesotan Mark Siegel of The 19th F...

Saturday Slumgullion #27

Lots of news articles to share: From the AARP Bulletin , June 2004, "Suing to get out in the world: San Franciscans break out of nursin...

Doctors involved with Ashley Treatment not as unified in support as previously indicated

From today's Salon.com, Rebecca Clarren reports in "Behind the Pillow Angel" that: Doctors at the Seattle hospital that opera...

Flannery O'Connor: The "crippled hillbilly Emily Dickinson"

It's nice to know I have people who read my blog, but even better is to know they are smart folks thinking through complex ideas even wh...

HIV discrimination in health care

From columnist Deb Price at detnews.com : Posing as discharge planners from hospitals or as HIV-positive patients, they contacted skilled nu...

Undergraduate memory

In my freshman year at Arizona State, I took a semester of art courses that assured me that I was not destined to live the life of a profess...