Korean girl still to be cared for by family of rapists

Here's the story in its entirety from The Korea Times , the only English-language, non-blogger source I could find for it: Court Ruling...

"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"...

Palin's speech about kids with disabilities

Did Palin's speech last Friday in Pittsburgh meet my low expectations for details on actual concerns of people with disabilities? Palin...

Palin to speak today on disability issues

I haven't really blogged yet about my opinion on veep candidate Sarah Palin and her claim that having an infant son with Down Syndrome g...

Slumgullion #46

A random collection of links, starting with blog posts on Palin and disability: Sarahlynn at Yeah, But Houdini Didn't have These Hips w...

"Ransom notes" ad campaign ends

Ari Ne'eman, president of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) that led the protest against the NYU Child Study Center's "...

The "ransom notes" campaign

We have your son.We are destroying his ability for social interaction and driving him into a life of complete isolation. It's up to you ...

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...

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...

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...

On Ruben Navarro

If you read just one thing this week about disability in America, read this . I briefly mentioned Navarro's case here but the above lin...

Pedro Guzman found

From the AP report : LOS ANGELES – A U.S. citizen who was wrongly deported in May was found at a border crossing over the weekend and was e...

Updated: CNN , developmental disability and institutionalization

There's a CNN special report about to air (today or possibly tomorrow, I'm told) on the treatment of developmentally disabled people...

Doctor murders disabled man to harvest organs

This story comes out of central California : San Luis Obispo County prosecutors have charged a transplant surgeon with prescribing excessive...

Pedro Guzman -- Disability claim disputed

I've been checking daily for news on U.S. citizen Pedro Guzman's disappearance after police deported him in early May. There hasn...

Olmstead Anniversary and the "right to die"

Today, June 22, 2007, is the eighth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. LC and EW . LC and EW are Lois Curtis and Elain...

Australian academics suspended over criticism of thesis on laughing at the disabled

A short summary of the story from The Courier Mail : TWO academics have been suspended without pay for six months for criticising a thesis w...

Pedro Guzman

This is a story that's been floating around for the past week. Penny covered it, and Belledame at Fetch Me My Axe has too. From the AC...

Movie review: Notes on a Scandal

Along with Testament , Penny mentioned in comments of an earlier review of mine that Notes on a Scandal , the 2006 psychological drama that...

Movie review: Testament

In the comments to my review of the movie Tiptoes , Penny mentions a 1983 movie called Testament for it's portrayal of a child with Do...