Mutilated (or Masticated) Monkey Meat

• The Everhart laughing stock show continues to roll, now with Stephen Colbert.  Video included.
• s.e. smith at Tiger Beatdown on what is apparently NPR's willful misunderstanding of disability.

  This is the state of disability journalism in the US. Harmful, error-riddled stories that propagate false mythologies about disability, don’t acknowledge the complexity of disability, fail to account for the multitude of factors involved, and don’t consult a single disability expert. This is lazy, bad journalism and I would expect better of a national-level organisation that happens to be highly renowned for the quality, breadth, and detail of its coverage. The fact that right-wing media are jumping on this report and heaping it with praise is an indicator of how skewed and dangerous it is: it provides an ideal argument for dismantling the social safety net, and no actual information about disability in the United States and the health and disability crisis that is gripping this country.

• In memoriam:  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, screenwriter and novelist (the Jhabvala in Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala).
• Roger Ebert's cancer has recurred, and Iain Banks has been diagnosed with terminal gall bladder cancer.