This is a post I meant to do a couple months ago. Part of what we try to do with this blog is to steer folks to great blogs on disability and especially to specific writings on NDY-related topics. There’s a new blog in town (not as new as it was a couple months ago) … Continue reading Blog Recommendation: Check Out ‘DisabilityRightNow’ Right Now!
The first time I ever heard of Dr. Phil McGraw was in the late summer of 2002 when I got a call from one of his producers. First, she had to explain to me just who “Dr.Phil” was. By now, anyone reading this knows his history with Oprah and his trajectory into his own show, … Continue reading Dr. Phil: Promoting Killing People with Cognitive Disabilities – And a Close Encounter in 2002
On March 16, this blog posted a hasty alert about a Live Blog on Canada’s Global News devoted to the promotion of legalizing the killing of disabled kids (and adults, as it turned out). I’ll try to find some time in the future to write something about being a participant in that repugnant experience. Right … Continue reading Canada: Council of Canadians with Disabilities Respond to Global News’ Promotion of Killing Disabled People
I love The Onion. I’m pretty sure that the writers aren’t taking a position on euthanasia here, but doing what satirists do best; they’ve taken a well-known, overused, emotionally manipulative and predictable script – and then twisted the context. I apologize for the lack of captioning, but I couldn’t pass this up. If there’s a … Continue reading The Onion: Brain-Dead Teen, Limited to Texting and Rolling Eyes, to be Euthanized (SATIRE)
My thanks to readers of this blog. Several entered into the surprisingly short comment thread in Time Magazine‘s “Fond Farewell” to Jack Kevorkian, which I wrote about last week. (Among other issues, the obituary referred to the people Kevorkian “helped” as ‘dying.) Surprisingly, aside from one person who made the tired old “we’re kinder to … Continue reading Disability Activists, Advocates and Others Pile on Time Magazine’s Error-Filled Kevorkian Tribute
