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...

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 ...

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...

On the language

I want to go back to that acceptance speech Obama gave Tuesday night and how it began: If there is anyone out there who still doubts that Am...

I was looking for this

I Googled "Obama wheelchair" earlier tonight in hopes of perusing pictures of Obama meeting disabled Americans on the campaign tra...

Imagining the future

If you're like me, you spent a bit of time each of the past two mornings trying it all out: President-Elect Obama. President Barack Obam...

Voting: On the importance of process

A reminder of why the nation continues to wrestle with the technology of voting machines. From seattlepi.com : Like other vote-by-mail count...

Finally!

Image description: Button courtesy of Nezua . It's round, reflective, 3D-ish and looks like a real lapel button. It's blue with a fe...

"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"...

Ohio study finds many polling places with access problems

Ohio is a swing state , you know. From the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio: Dozens of Franklin County polling sites failed to meet accessibility ...

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...

Vote early

Two years ago, I wrote something about how I thought absentee voting as a standard practice for disabled citizens, or as a plan for all cit...

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...

McCain can't use a computer because he's disabled

About a month ago ABC news' correspondent Jake Tapper reported on John McCain's choice to not use computers. Barack Obama's cam...

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...

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...

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...

The Most Important Disability Policy

I had a hard time choosing one topic for this year's BADD. There's the presidential candidates' disability policies , McCain...