Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled April 24, 2024And there's a written version! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled April 24, 2024Naomi Klein on how Zionism has become a false idol. https://youtu.be/U75KcMUjMyI?si=uZuV_UNZkWXNFYG3&t=198
- Untitled April 24, 2024The Leader of All Manhood has issued his ruling: It's gay for men to love sex with women. Guys: If you hate sex with women, you can do it and be straight. But if you love sex with women, that's gay. If you want to be straight, fuck men instead. Sorry, but that's the rule.
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Author Archives: Kay Olson
Robert Latimer denied parole
Yesterday, a Canadian parole board in a prison near Victoria denied day parole to Robert Latimer. Latimer is the Saskatchewan farmer serving a life sentence for the second-degree murder of his 12-year-old disabled daughter back in 1993. Some facts: Tracy … Continue reading
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Disability in China
A Chinese woman by the name of Wang Fang declined a disability pension despite being born with feet that face backwards. This is news in Britain, if only, perhaps, so the intriguing pictures of the 27-year-old waitress and resident of … Continue reading
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Best of 2007
I wasn’t going to offer a Best of 2007 list of my posts this early because I’m an optimist and I like to think genius may strike me in the next three weeks. But for those who may be reading … Continue reading
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Back again, but this time here to stay
Hi all. My name is Kay Olson (known in the past and in the archives here as Blue or Blue Lily) and I write over at The Gimp Parade about disability. I blogged here as a guest last year, but … Continue reading
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That's all folks!
My month of Alas blogging seems to have expired already. Many thanks to Amp for the invitation, and to everyone else for welcoming me and engaging in conversation with me. It wasn’t all pretty, but they were all discussions I … Continue reading
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Jury duty
I’ve been called up for jury duty at the county court level. This is the second time in three years that this supposedly random process has chosen me, though my parents have never in their lives been called to serve. … Continue reading
Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, Supreme Court Issues
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Disability Blog Carnival begins
Penny Richards at Disability Studies, Temple, U., has decided it’s time for the Disability Blog Carnival to begin. She’s been posting monthly crip blog roundups, and the last one was both amazing and impressively long. And remember Goldfish’s Blog Against … Continue reading
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"Is your life hard or super-hard?"
My aunt and uncle visited from Wyoming today and I showed them the drawings and pictures their daughter’s third-grade students sent me last Spring. There are two series of letters since I replied once and then they all wrote back, … Continue reading
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