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"...Sotomayor's most important service as a role model may be as a Type 1 diabetic -- someone who has, since the age of eight, had to deal with what has variously been referred to as "childhood," "juvenile" or "insulin-dependent" ( Read more... )

Obama doesn't just talk a good game.
He listens, too, to leaders of the disability community.

One-armed TV show host scares kids, parents say
I don't think these people should be allowed to even have kids.
Harsh?

It’s a pretty cool but rare phenomenon when various aspects of one’s life seem to just fall together and fit together such that, for one brief moment, one actually starts to believe that it all makes sense. Or at least the one particular arena in which things are seemingly coming together. It’s a beautiful thing when academic considerations can ( Read more... )

while relentlessly procrastinating, i've been wondering over the past several days why i have been so hesitant to work on my social movements paper. it is about a subject i am passionately interested in, the disability rights movement, and it was a decent paper for which i received generally positive feedback. so, i must reflect and ask myself ( Read more... )

"But you can't pass a law and change society, says David Newburger, a civil rights attorney in St. Louis. The big political movements of this generation -- civil rights, women's rights and Vietnam war protests -- were characterized by mass marches and charismatic leaders. But they also ignited great social change, raising the issue of racial and ( Read more... )