Amputee soldiers return to active duty

The Quaker Agitator notes the changing military policy on injured soldiers. From the Yahoo story : Previously, a soldier who lost a limb al...

Movie review: Tiptoes

Imagine the movie North Country cast with Brad Pitt playing Charlize Theron's role of the woman suffering sexual harassment at work. No...

Regarding Kevorkian

Not Dead Yet is demanding that the Associated Press retract and correct a faulty poll that asked the public misleading questions about the ...

Race as disability

Back in March the story of the Andrews family of Long Island came to public attention. The NY Daily News announced " What a mess, bab...

Mini-slumgullion # 38 -- Announcement-y stuff

Via Penny : Cindy Sue at Six Almost Seven announces plans to celebrate the eighth anniversary of the Olmstead decision at the Georgia State...

The Case against Perfection

A new book by Michael J. Sandel, called The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering , explores the moral issues cr...

Things that crack me up, #28

Photo description: A picture of a woman in a wheelchair taken from several feet behind her. A woman with long flowing almost white-blonde ha...

Check out Disability Blog Carnival #15

The latest edition of the twice-monthly Disability Blog Carnival is up at Ryn Tales , where "Family" is the theme. Under that them...

Movie review: Emmanuel's Gift

I didn't expect to like this 2005 documentary , the story of Ghanaian Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, born without a tibia in his right leg and o...

Guest posting at Echidne's for a week

Tireless feminist blogger Echidne at Echidne of the Snakes has enlisted me and several other folks to keep her place busy while she takes a...

Admin notes

Welcome to the hundreds of visitors following the AOL links here through the news story of Emilio Gonzales. There's not really much orig...

Poetry Monday: Jhamak Kumari Ghimire

What is the Interpretation of the New Millenium? by Jhamak Kumari Ghimire A soft light glimmers on the eve of people’s deaths The fern unfur...

Emilio Gonzales dies

Baby Emilio died on Saturday. From the AP story : AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A 19-month-old boy whose terminal illness started a contentious legal...

Need something to read because you came here to see what's up, only to find that I am currently a slacker?

Go here and read Retired Waif's lovely rant . A tiny taste: Yes, I have a terrible attitude. I catch reproachful looks all the time. Aft...

Eleventh Circuit: Mental Retardation is Not a Disability Under the ADA

I stole the headline from Sam Bagenstos at Disability Law . He has the relevant excerpt from the unpublished Eleventh Circuit District Court...

Some Fred Small lyrics for Ruth

Talking Wheelchair Blues by Fred Small I went for a jog in the city air I met a woman in a wheelchair I said "I'm sorry to see you...

Things that crack me up, #27

Sitemeter Google query o' the day: "how do rodents adapt to dessert"? [sic] How about it? Answers for inquiring minds? As an ...

Friday music: Random wheelchair reference

The Ramones: "I Wanna Be Sedated" Lyrics: Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated Nothin' to do no where to g...

Disability Blog Carnival #14 -- Firsts

Welcome to the 14th Disability Blog Carnival! There's been much blogworld sharing of posts about disability recently because of the seco...

Please sit by

Or stand by, if that's your thing. There are a couple dozen emails from readers that I'm not ignoring -- if they seem to be a topic ...

Hospital violated state law performing "Ashley Treatment"

I will do more than simply post the links on this soon, but the news for now from the Washington Protection and Advocacy System (soon to b...

Why the disabled do Taliban's deadly work

Globe and Mail article here . Excerpt: His disability didn't come as a surprise. As the insurgency in Afghanistan gathers urgency, the ...

Ron Kovic on war

This is a video of activist Ron Kovic by MoveOn.Org speaking about war, the disability it causes and the cost to Americans. Thanks to Trini...

Poetry Monday: Mark Doty

An excerpt from "Atlantis" by Mark Doty : 4. ATLANTIS I thought your illness a kind of solvent dissolving the future a little at a...

Is it teh funny? Discuss

Above is a YouTube video clip (link to it on YouTube here ) from the cable comedy show Campus Ladies , an episode where the women research a...

Coming Tuesday -- Info pulled upon request

The full info on Tuesday. Update: Info here .

Friday Poetry

Goodbye to Tolerance by Denise Levertov Genial poets, pink-faced earnest wits— you have given the world some choice morsels, gobbets of lang...

Gimp Etiquette

In comments to my BADD post below, Attila the Mom links to Sunny Dreamer's list of Wheelchair Etiquette and Mr. Soul says : Wheelchai...