Just Food: A Book Review
I had the good luck to be assigned James McWilliams' Just Food for a review in this month's Internet Review of Books. It's a superbly argued thesis advocating a thorough rethinking of how human beings approach the idea of food. If you cannot afford to buy a copy, I urge you to check the book out and read it when it arrives at your local library.Just Food author James McWilliams also has an opinion piece in today's Washington Post.Read his opinion

An Interesting Contretemps ...
The story begins ..."Glee" wheelchair episode hits bump with disabledBy LYNN ELBER (AP)LOS ANGELES — The glee club members twirl their wheelchairs to the tune of "Proud Mary" and in joyful solidarity with Artie, the fellow performer who must use his chair even when the music stops.

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