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

The first thing I have to say about being at BlogHer was that, because I didn’t have to keep looking for a boy at my back (not that I didn’t sometimes turn and scan the room for him; it’s a reflex)—-because I was on my own, I got a chance to look at some things a little more.
I got in at the San Francisco Airport mid-Friday morning and took BART, and was briefly disoriented. When I growing up, BART ended at Daly City, not the airport, and went to Fremont, Concord, or Richmond. Now it goes out to Pittsburg/Bay Point …read more