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...

Tomorrow is Wednesday again

It's also International Human Rights Day. Wednesday is, you may remember , the day on which, most weeks, Ray Sandford of Columbia Heigh...

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...

Friday Music: Warren Zevon

Warren Zevon would be an appropriate music post on The Gimp Parade because he was a well-known musician with obsessive-compulsive disorder, ...

Action Alert -- Update on Ray Sandford's forced electroshock "therapy"

Image description: A color photo taken by a concerned citizen who visited Ray Sandford after hearing about his forced electroshock treatment...

Forced electroshock in Minnesota

I've copied the following in its entirety from The Trouble with Spikol : URGENT: Forced Electroshock ...

Friday Music: Kristen Hersh

Kristen Hersh began performing in the college-radio band Throwing Muses at age 14. She's been writing music, performing and touring her ...

A handy guide to your presidential candidates and their senatorial records on disability

Provided by the Ohio Legal Rights Service . (Link leads to a chart showing the positions of both McCain and Obama on a wide variety of disab...

Phoning It In

Last month, the state of Massachusetts issued a report on an August 2007 incident at one of the group homes of the Judge Rotenberg Center (...

Friday Music: Sinéad O'Connor

This is what Sinéad O'Connor actually said this past September, according to a Minneapolis Star Tribune article : "I'd been su...

"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 ...

Prison suicides and mental illness

Piggybacking on Amp's report of recent NYT statistics on prisons and prisoners in the U.S. is the news that prisoner suicides in Massa...

Poetry Monday: Anne Sexton

It was Anne Sexton's birthday last week. I don't know if Hugo Schwyzer was aware of that when he posted about her work, particularl...

Friday music: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by Nina Simone

Link to a YouTube video here . The images in the video present a montage of photos about the American Civil Rights movement, set to Nina Sim...

Veterans sue U.S. government

On Monday, two veterans' organizations filed a nationwide class-action suit against the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) for fai...

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...

Poetry Monday: Their Sudden Tongues

Tulips by Sylvia Plath The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here. Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in I am learning...