Health care and non-compete agreements

Two years ago this week I got caught up in a legal dispute that briefly threatened my life. Obviously, I'm still alive, but a version of...

Slumgullion #48

Just a few good links. That's all you need, right? Bush cuts outpatient Medicaid services -- You heard about this parting gift from our...

"I had a choice, and I chose life. Does that make me pro-choice or pro-life"?

Tierney Temple Fairchild writes in the Washington Post about her ten-year-old daughter and what it means to her to "choose life"...

Slumgullion #45

Yeah, I'm still here. I got new eyeglasses this weekend, and while it may take a few days to adjust to the bifocals (!) I hope to be spe...

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...

Katie Jones and Deus ex machina

The story of Katie Jones has been circulating slowly on disability listservs and blogs since the December 9 article in the Chicago Tribune ....

Robert Latimer denied parole

Yesterday, a Canadian parole board in a prison near Victoria denied day parole to Robert Latimer . Latimer is the Saskatchewan farmer servin...

Disability in China

A Chinese woman by the name of Wang Fang declined a disability pension despite being born with feet that face backwards. This is news in Bri...

Volunteers needed for sex with the disabled

The news is out of Switzerland : A Swiss welfare group is recruiting volunteers to have sex with disabled people. The Basel-based Welfar...

The Speed of Dark

Back in June of 2005, anticipating the 15th anniversary of the ADA, I wrote about "The Excuse of Architecture" and cited a New Mo...

Just when you think you're safe

This past August really sucked. September did too. I got a routine feeding tube replacement at the end of July and then had weeks of agony e...

Nobel laureate James Watson and the big liberal tent

Last month, scientist James Watson , who won the Nobel back in 1962 for his work in understanding the Double Helix structure of DNA, was bus...

Lately, at the Compound

I love unpredictability in my friends. People who say or do things it wouldn't immediately occur to me to say or do either intrigue or f...

The next Ashley X

Her name is Katie Thorpe . Other bloggers have been covering this latest story. Penny has the link collection here . Let her know if you got...

More Profit, Less Nursing

A recent NYT article on nursing homes illustrates how for-profit institutions can be dangerous for inmates of those homes: The typical nur...

Designer Babies and the Pro-Choice Movement

I'm suffering from Acute Blogging Malaise. So, I'll just post the link to this article and hope to say something relevant in comment...

One more photo

These group action pics give me happy chills. Image description: From observer rachelleb , this color photo is taken from several stories ab...

I think it's safe to say. . .

that folks in wheelchairs have the edge in creating successful sit-in protests . Not that it's all about sitting around, but we do bring...