Congratulating Peter Singer
There is an article in The Daily Princetonian celebrating Peter Singer's ten year anniversary at that institution. Of no special import, this article, other than it accused one of the groups leading the opposition to Singer's appointment -- the disability rights organization, Not Dead Yet -- of staging "violent protests."The misstatement

One Small Step for the Wheelchair Bound
The issue of the so-called "Dignity Wheelchair" came up for discussion about people with disabilities who can sometimes influence the media. One person took action, Brewster Thackeray, AARP's Disability Community Liaison.Thackeray wrote me, "I just had a good chat with Jeff Deutscher, the media contact at

An Undignified Observation
I keep a Google Alert running for "confined to a wheelchair" and "wheelchair bound" simply because [1] I don't like the terms and [2] I am curious about how they are still used in the English language.This press release came up via my alert settings earlier this week, and after I read it I found it was

Richard the Monkey as a Service Animal, or Not
photograph linked to the story on the Springfield News-Leader website.

A Bonnet Macaque Named Richard
The Bonnet Macaque from WikipediaHere in southwest Missouri, mainly in the city of Springfield, there has been an ongoing dispute about the nature of a service animal. Today a federal district judge ruled that a Macaque monkey is not a service animal in relation to a person with agoraphobia and anxiety disorder who desires to move ab