Saturday Slumgullion #5

• Stuart Hughes of Beyond Northern Iraq reports a more personal story of being back in a war zone covering news for the BBC.

• Popular Science magazine covers the quest by some injured American soldiers for better-working prothestics. There's an informative slideshow explaining current capabilities for artificial limbs versus future hopes for the technology.

• A back injury enlightens a writer in Tallahassee about the daily benefits of an enforced ADA. The 16th anniversary of the ADA's passage is this coming Wednesday, July 26, by the way. It's good to take note of things the law has accomplished.

• Quite likely it's an urban legend, but the story of a disabled Chinese migrant worker continues to travel the internet.

• A California DUI attorney muses about the applicability of the ADA to drunk drivers. If alcoholism is a disease, is drunk driving a choice for his defendants? I'd sooner muse about why the ADA isn't helping mentally disabled people on death row, but the logical argument is similar.

• Aishwarya at Kaleidoglide compares left-handedness and the need for Southpaw accommodations to disability and accommodations. Interesting approach.

• Ragged Edge readers discuss the man in New York who claims nude sun-bathing for a skin condition and his rat terrier's companionship for 9/11-caused PTSD are both accommodations covered by the ADA.

• Encarne Conde has a blog that pictures (and discusses in Spanish) all sorts of wholesome crip events.

• Autism Diva discusses her concerns with Kellogg now that the cereal company has teamed with Autism Speaks, the organization responsible for the "disgusting video" Autism Every Day.

• Katja at Broken Clay has the story of how Alaska Airlines supported the 26th annual Disabled Veterans Wheelchair Games by working to fly everyone up to Anchorage. The picture at right is the gimp parade to an airplane.

• Julia Shumko at You Have to be Deaf to Understand describes how the U.S. Social Security system boxes in a disabled person when becoming fully employed means less income and fewer benefits than working just under the income limit SS allows. Via Browser Life.

• I'm Funny Too at Did I Miss Something? aptly explains her feelings about Bush's stem cell veto, science, and the curing of disabled folks. She articulates what I wish I'd said as well.