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Health care and non-compete agreements 10 Jan 2012 | 03:21 pm
Two years ago this week I got caught up in a legal dispute that briefly threatened my life. Obviously, I'm still alive, but a version of what happened to me could happen to anyone who consumes health ...
Friday Music: Mark E. Smith and The Fall 3 Apr 2009 | 05:12 pm
The times they are a-changin', just a little, I think. The music news site TwentyFourBit reports: "Taking the stage in a wheelchair after your hip breaks for the second time is pretty punk rock, we t...
Sara 31 Mar 2009 | 04:50 pm
There are those people online that you never get to meet but suspect could be your very best friend if they only lived closer. I tend to work them into daily offline conversations sometimes, with refe...
Friday Music: Bradford Cox, Deerhunter, Atlas Sound 6 Feb 2009 | 07:47 pm
"I've always been a leader of awkward people," Bradford Cox says. Cox, lead singer (and also guitarist, keyboardist and player of various other stuff) of Atlanta band Deerhunter and solo-project Atla...
Winter at the Gimp Compound 2 Feb 2009 | 04:17 pm
The holidays and the new year went well for me, though my computer needed some repairs that kept me from writing here for about a month. Happily, and for the first time in my 40 years of experience wi...
Music Friday: Antony and the Johnsons 30 Jan 2009 | 07:49 pm
My newest music obsession is Antony and the Johnsons. Antony Hegarty is, as described by SignOnSan Diego, a "brawny-looking, transsexual Irish-American maverick with a wonderfully androgynous voice an...
When the wheels make the man, part 7 27 Dec 2008 | 06:27 pm
From newsday.com, we get this headline: Woman accused in wheelchair death faces homicide charge Yeah. The death was actually that of a human being, a man using a motorized wheelchair. It was a hit-an...
When the wheels make the man, part 6 19 Dec 2008 | 03:45 pm
For the first time in this series, the wheelchair makes the woman instead of the man. Not really an improvement. From the Australia Courier Mail, a headline about a man stalking a woman: Man, 82, ac...
When the wheels make the man, part 5 18 Dec 2008 | 04:05 pm
From Dayton, Ohio, a man who uses a wheelchair burgles a restaurant four times in one week. Naturally, the headline about it reads: Wheelchair burglar raids restaurant four times in week It wouldn't ...
Things that crack me up #51 17 Dec 2008 | 08:03 pm
Image description: A color photo of a nice little sign for restrooms showing a female figure, Wheelchair Dude (I consider "Dude" gender-neutral -- dooooode), and a male figure, all in variations of th...
