Solidarity versus Solitude

Aug 302010
 

Yesterday I rode in the Venus de Miles. It’s a women’s bike ride in its third year here in Boulder County. Riders can chose from 3 distances: 33 miles, 51 miles or 67 miles (a metric century). Since the longest ride I’d ever done when I signed up was 27 miles, and since I didn’t [...]

More on Frivolous Lawsuits

Aug 262010
 

Bad Cripple’s take on the Frivolous Lawsuit issue: An Image Problem: The ADA and Business

Advocacy or Appeasement?

Aug 252010
 

Let’s say there were federal laws about, I don’t know, food safety. And let’s say that instead of having restaurant inspectors, the federal government decided that the best way to enforce the laws about food safety would be to allow individual restaurant customers to sue restaurants. Who would be surprised if, twenty years later, a [...]

Rocks in the Stream

Aug 172010
 

Someone’s been busy in Boulder Creek near the library: I especially like the flat rock stacked vertically, point down:

Body Matters

Aug 172010
 

Check out Wheelchair Dancer’s Body Matters and WHEELIE cATHOLIC’s Comments on “Body Matters”. Both are marvelous posts, the first more theoretical, the second more concrete, both awareness-raising and full of “oh, yes!” moments.

On the Street

Aug 162010
 

For years, while waiting to cross a street, I avoided blocking the top of the curbcut because, I don’t know, someone might need it. I now know that ambulatory people abhor a vacuum, and if I don’t position myself squarely in front of it, they will.

The Original Racing Wheelchair

Aug 022010
 

Ziggi at Wheelchair Diffusion writes about the original racing wheelchair: At the beginning and for many years racing wheelchairs were nothing more than a street wheelchair modified by athletes who spent as much time with a welding torch and wrench in their hands as they did with their hands on the push-rims. Full article: Peek [...]

Infant Returned to Blind Parents

Aug 012010
 

Via Haddayr. I, too, am speechless. When will this sort of thing stop? “I needed help as a new parent, but not as a blind parent,” Johnson said. She recalled the social worker saying: “‘Look, because you guys are blind, I don?t feel like you can adequately take care of her.’ And she left.” The [...]

Featured on Stumptuous!

Aug 012010
 

STUMP (noun) 1. The part of a tree trunk left protruding from the ground after the tree has fallen or has been felled. 2. Informal: a leg. 3. A short, thickset person. 4. A place or an occasion used for political or campaign oratory: candidates out on the stump. I’ve been a fan of Mistress [...]

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