Saturday Slumgullion #16

Today's linkfest is a fun luxury for me, since I can collect the blog posts no one submitted to the Disability Carnival #2 but are too good to not plug while they're fresh and juicy:

• Lance Mannion: Resenting the handicapped parking spaces -- Mannion on rich white guys, Limbaugh, and those who hate disabled people. This link really belongs below in my post about Michael J. Fox, but I found it too late. Via Planet of the Blind

• From NPR: Blogs Capture, Amplify Gallaudet Protest -- Offered both in audio and written transcript, NPR's Joseph Shapiro discusses how both sides in the Gallaudet protest of 2006 are using blogs to share info and garner support.

• The Blind Bookworm Blog: So I'm not the only one -- Kestrell unpacks the language of a recent Guardian article on blind British politician David Blunkett. Also check out her 13 Days of Halloween, which is on-going.

• Special Education Law Blog: File and Win? -- Charles Fox critiques the New York Magazine article "The Autism Clause" which he says grossly oversimplifies the situation of parents who sue for their childrens' educations.
  

• Gordon's D-Zone: Too Blind to See? -- Gordon Cardona has been blind and now he can see, yet he talks about the quality of his life before and after and says some interesting things.

• Allison Kaftan: I Want My Life Back -- Allison Kaftan writes that she wants the Gallaudet protest to be over and life to be normal again.

• AmpuTeeHee: ... and so this is the day when things will get really interesting -- The AmpuT tells of the imminent loss of her much-needed rental wheelchair and also, in a most excellent follow-up, how things did get interesting.

• The Meanderings of a Politically Incorrect Crip: If It's All Right With You -- Charles Dawson meanders eloquently about empowerment and, eventually, disability.