Saturday slumgullion #4

Lots o' links here:

• Sam at Disability Law reports on an Eleventh Circuit ADA case where standing was denied on a suit about access to a greyhound race track because the plaintiff could not be specific about when he might return to the track. The desire to go (and find it accessible) the next time he wants to wasn't good enough. As if life wasn't unspontaneous enough for many disabled folks, now we have to schedule when we might like to use our civil rights.

• Professor Leonard at Leonard Link reports on a federal court decision in Wisconsin that denies ADA standing because of a bizarre distinction between being HIV+ and having AIDS.

• Shh...Mum is Thinking weighs in on prenatal testing for autism and why she's totally against it. She relates a poignant personal experience well worth the time to read.

• Ragged Edge reports that the move to end electric shock behavioral conditioning for children at Massachusett's Judge Rotenberg Educational Center has died in committee.

• Amy at Diabetes Mine relates what happened on a recent flight when she found herself "diabetically unprepared and forced to 'rely on the kindness of strangers' -- which was not forthcoming."

• Stuart Hughes of Beyond Northern Iraq writes for the BBC about "outsider art" at the Creative Growth center in Oakland, California.

• The Patient Consumer held it's first carnival (or parade, actually) last week. I contributed to that, but there's a new parade -- edition 2 -- coming up for anyone who wants to participate.

• John Kelly at NAG continues to chronicle the fight for freedom from brick sidewalks in Boston by meeting with the local WCBV Channel 5 to show the bumpity-bump pleasure of all that brick from a wheeler's point of view. Good photos.

• Scott at Rolling Rains has been covering the accessibility of his personal travels recently, including the surprise of an inaccesible bed at an otherwise lovely hotel. Look also for the photos of his encounter with some bears near Mt. Baker, Washington.

• Finally, the latest Carnival of Feminists can be found at Ink & Incapability. The next one will be at Figure: Demystifying the Feminist Mystique where the theme will be feminism and career. I think this begs for a disability take on employment from someone -- I don't know the deadline, but the carnival will post July 18.