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• I Can’t Believe You’re Disabled! Institutional Abuse and Vulnerability

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-15 • ( 14 )

  More for the disabled-people-are-treated-lower-than-shit files: From Huffington Post, via disabled_rage: Police officer in Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office has been suspended – for dumping a man with quadriplegia out on his face. Brian Sterner was brought in on a warrant for… Read More ›

• Drinkin’, gamblin’, smokin’, shootin’ up, skull-ownin’, tattoo-havin’, and candle-burnin’: the Seven Deadly Sins

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-14 • ( 10 )

  Some art is just… special. This is one of my recent faves, from Art for GOD.

• Apology and Reparation: In Their Own Words

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-14 • ( 4 )

  A roundup of some background and responses around Apology Day and reparations. ~~~ “For the pain, suffering and hurt of these stolen generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry. To the mothers and the fathers,… Read More ›

• “Sorry, but”: The apology, mutual responsibility, and self-determination

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-13 • ( 15 )

  There’s been a bit of “Not today. Don’t anyone critique him today. Today is the day the PM is above critique.” The day we suspend critique is the day we confer absolute power. I didn’t go into this election planning… Read More ›

• This is what we’re up against: “Ironbar” Tuckey

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-12 • ( 14 )

  Wilson “Ironbar” Tuckey , the member for O’Connor, a huge rural electorate in WA, walked out on the apology this morning. Ironbar Tuckey got his nickname after he was convicted in 1967 for beating an Aboriginal man with an iron… Read More ›

• Axe and Unilever strike again: Clinton as slavering brainless schoolgirl

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-12 • ( 4 )

  Hey, you know that company that feminists are slavering over, because of all the wonderful work they’ve done for women’s self-esteem, especially average-sized middle-class conventionally-beautiful able-bodied women? The one that talks about how women can be strong, independent, and confident?… Read More ›

• Obama and McCain: Compare and Contrast

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-12 • ( 3 )

  [via Brooklynite’s place.] Descriptions and lyrics:

• Reducing major surgery by 80%: why are surgeons not interested?

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-11 • ( 9 )

  I’ve posted before about the C section escalation crisis and about some of the associated risks. The Medical Journal of Australia describes “The first year of a midwifery-led model of care in Far North Queensland”. The paper outlines the experience… Read More ›

• Health in Pictures: the Daily Mail

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-09 • ( 14 )

  Via jadine in the Shapely Prose comments, who posted this screenshot, the Daily Mail’s take on “health”. I think there’s something in this for all of us. “A picture of poor health”, Sean Lennon, who they dub “rotund” and “The… Read More ›

• Weekend Wibble: space gems, stem cells, a spot, some spin, and a switch

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-09 • ( 2 )

  Tigtog’s posted your reading; I’ve got your Weekend Pick n Mix right here. ~~~ Courtesy of Jeff Fecke at Shakesville, this compelling bit of Jesus kitsch. ~~~