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Say It Ain't So

Patricia E. Bauer reports:

"Under federal Medicaid legislation, people with disabilities lose their benefits if they marry someone with more than $2,000 in assets."

Follow this link to learn more:  Medicaid creates marriage penalty for people with disabilities

Blind as a Bat

As written by Simi Linton:

Definitions of the word “blind” found in my computer’s Thesaurus support the idea that blindness limits . The terms ignorant, imperceptive, insensitive, irrational, oblivious, obtuse, random, rash, stagger, unaware, unconscious, uncontrolled, unknowing, unplanned and violent came up on my screen. My Roget’s Thesaurus also provided inattentive and purposeless. These meanings lurk under the surface when the word “blind” is used whether on its own, or in pairings, in such phrases as “blind passion”, “blind rage”, “blind justice”, “blind drunk” and “blind faith”.

How can the culture get away with attaching such an absurd proliferations of meanings to a condition that affects, simply, visual acuity? Of all the impairments, blindness seems to call up the most fantastical of responses. These are used, uncritically and without apparent irony by many and often.

Read Simi's post in its entirety: Blind Blind People and Other Spurious Tales