Yes, it's exactly like Sophie's Choice

From Inside Higher Ed , here's the story of a seven-year-old ADA case against Louisiana's McNeese State University for failure to...

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...

Minnesota Spring

A bunch of photos, unrelated to disability except in the " stay in your house! " sense: The first four were taken at the Minnesot...

RIP Harriet McBryde Johnson, 1957-2008

Overwhelmingly sad news today: Harriet McBryde Johnson has died at age 50. Image description: The photo shows Johnson in a flowered-print na...

I feel sad, too, though unrelenting rage is more appropriate

Many who blog about autism have written about Alex Barton , the Florida five-year-old, whose Kindergarten teacher led his classmates i...

Hiya gawkers!

Yesterday I went to Great Clips to get my hair cut. The hairdresser I've had for the past year got a job at the local bank around Chris...

Friday Music: The Blind Boys of Alabama

The Blind Boys of Alabama are an old-school gospel group that's been singing and touring since 1939. Yeah, 1939 . That's a lot of c...