I feel sad, too, though unrelenting rage is more appropriate

Many who blog about autism have written about Alex Barton , the Florida five-year-old, whose Kindergarten teacher led his classmates i...

Hiya gawkers!

Yesterday I went to Great Clips to get my hair cut. The hairdresser I've had for the past year got a job at the local bank around Chris...

Friday Music: The Blind Boys of Alabama

The Blind Boys of Alabama are an old-school gospel group that's been singing and touring since 1939. Yeah, 1939 . That's a lot of c...

Slumgullion #44 -- Voter ID edition

Here's a bunch o' links on the issue of voter identification, specifically photo ID, and how it impacts disabled people and other fo...

Things that crack me up #39

Cilla at Big Noise cracks me up. After my last published edition of what afflicts me with the chuckles , Penny at Disability Studies posted...

Check out the 37th edition of the Disability Blog Carnival

Did you know that Dorothea Lange , famed Depression-era photographer, had polio and that her experience with disability informed her work? M...

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Apparently, "wheelchair guy" in Mexico is more interesting than his relative to the north. Image description: Two identical simply...

Things that crack me up #38

Which is more disturbing? That the disabled wheelchair symbol guy is naked or that the nondisabled stick figure guy is not wearing pants? Im...

Culture, chaos theory and choice

So, in my BADD post the other day, I explicitly noted the evil of our U.S. foreign policy in Iraq -- our war that, among other things, disa...

The Most Important Disability Policy

I had a hard time choosing one topic for this year's BADD. There's the presidential candidates' disability policies , McCain'...