My latest *Plato's Nightmare" post is now up:

[capri0mni]

"They that went on Crutches" (the intersection of Disability and Old Age) (basically, I just expanded yesterday's DreamWidth post where I asked: "Should I include Old Age in discussions of Disability?" 'cause by the time I finished writing that, I realized I should, and, what's more, I could use that passage from The Winter's Tale as my example -- it is, after all, a classic literature text written in the form of a fairy tale. So it fits my blog in all 12 dimensions of known space.

Oh, and according to my Blogger dashboard, Plato's Nightmare / Aesop's Dream passed the 1,500 unique page-view mark sometime yesterday (not including my own checks, to see if anyone has replied).

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[jesse_the_k]

There are two FWD articles from the wise women at Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin of Body Impolitic. They address the rhetorical use of "temporarily able bodied" and why simple old age shouldn't be reckoned as disability, They examine the intersection between aging and disability, because they think it’s a smaller intersection than is generally perceived.

I've been waiting a year to understand why their thesis made me itch. I'm hoping your new posts will contribute to the stew.

[capri0mni]

I'm hoping your new posts will contribute to the stew.

Terrific! I hope they contribute something tasty and nutritious to the stew.

And of course, everything needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

(and for what it's worth, even though I've yet to read their particular contributions, that argument has always made me itch.)