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...

The Russian

On my first night at the rehab hospital, I was about as vulnerable as a person can be. I'd been in the ICU at a different hospital for a...

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...

Why the disabled do Taliban's deadly work

Globe and Mail article here . Excerpt: His disability didn't come as a surprise. As the insurgency in Afghanistan gathers urgency, the ...

On Virginia Tech

My thoughts go out to the families and friends of those killed at Virginia Tech. It's hard to know what to say about such devastating vi...