This was going to be yet another post about “Michael Savage’s savagery” with a nice elliptical reference to the Beats and Allen “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked” Ginsburg and the denial of disability with examination of Savage’s reference to a severely disabled sibling who died in a “’snake pit’” of a NYC “‘mental hospital’” and discussion of how Savage suggests that only HE knows disability and can therefore tell us that 99% of our autistic children aren’t autistic, just the products of our bad parenting.
I’d been reading post, article, editorial, another …read more

Maybe it’s because, for the past several years, my husband has been writing a book about the port of New Jersey and New York and about the 1954 film On the Waterfront, which is about how broken-down boxer/longshoreman Terry Malloy finds redemption when he stands up to the corrupt union bosses who control the docks (and who have some shady, underworld connections)—–maybe it’s because we were (with apologies to Brett) living in Missouri and homesick for New Jersey when The Sopranos first aired on HBO, and the sight of Tony driving down the Turnpike through the Meadowlands, past Pizzaland, and …read more