Friday Music: Mark E. Smith and The Fall

The times they are a-changin', just a little, I think. The music news site TwentyFourBit reports : "Taking the stage in a wheelchai...

When the wheels make the man, part 7

From newsday.com , we get this headline: Woman accused in wheelchair death faces homicide charge Yeah. The death was actually that of a huma...

When the wheels make the man, part 6

For the first time in this series, the wheelchair makes the woman instead of the man. Not really an improvement. From the Australia Courier...

When the wheels make the man, part 5

From Dayton, Ohio, a man who uses a wheelchair burgles a restaurant four times in one week. Naturally, the headline about it reads : Wheelch...

When the wheels make the man, part 4

Out of Spokane, Washington, news of a man who uses a wheelchair falsely reporting being assaulted. The Washington state TV station KXLY offe...

When the wheels make the man, part 3

From the Sunday Mail in the UK, we get this headline: Wheelchair pervert David Bennie jailed for decade of child abuse No, the man was not ...

Lame Duck

Image description: A color cartoon drawing of a white duck with George Bush's head and one hand, but a duck bill for a mouth. He's ...

7 Wheelchairs reviewed by NYT

Image description: Color photo of Gary Presley's book cover for "7 Wheelchairs: A Life Beyond Polio." A close-up photo of one ...

When the wheels make the man, part 2

Each incarnation of an ugly news story out of Darwin, Australia, continues to boggle my mind. A 26-year-old man had sex with his disabled, w...

When the wheels make the man

The Desert Sun of Palm Springs, California, ran a short story last week with this headline: Wheelchair stabber's sentencing delayed Th...

Paralympics special airs today on NBC

For Americans who didn't have access to what happened at the Beijing Paralympics this summer (and that would be all of us who don't...

Save Bitch Magazine

Bitch Magazine , one of my favorite magazines, is in desperate need of a little financial help in order to keep publishing "the feminis...

Praying with Lior

I've heard good things about a new documentary film, Praying with Lior , only opening now in a few cities and playing primarily at Jewis...

Update: Casting director fired from "Shelter" flick

According to the AP : A casting director for the horror thriller "Shelter" has been fired after West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin...

Hollywood casting call for that "inbred" look

From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (bolded italics are mine): The announcement -- which was sent out in a news release and posted on the ca...

Cop dumps quadriplegic man out of his wheechair

The story : Police Suspended for Wheelchair Dumping TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Four Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies have been suspended a...

How does this political ad compare to that Nike ad?

The recent Nike ad featuring Paralympian basketball player Matt Scott generated lots of discussion here recently. Here's a political ad...

New Disability Blog Carnival at [with]tv

The latest Disability Blog Carnival is up at [with]tv where Connie Kuusisto (also blogging at Planet of the Blind ) has compiled a collecti...

Nike ad features Paralympian

It hurts me a little bit to post this ad for discussion. I participated in protests at my university when the sports department contracted w...

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 ....