Paisley Paramedics

First of all, happy birthday to Chally! (Actually technically her birthday is over at this point, because she lives IN THE FUTURE.)

BBC News: Ordeal of Australia’s child migrants

The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect.

Bitch Magazine: The Transcontinental Disability Choir: How to make your blog accessible in five not-very-complicated steps

But a few key things with your blog can make a big difference in who can read it.

This also applies to websites in general, in addition to blogs!

Los Angeles Times: Blogging moms wooed by food firms

Some companies are even offering free kitchen appliances, vacations, groceries and enough fruity snacks to feed a neighborhood’s worth of kids.

An incredibly biased article painting people who accept corporate handouts as innocent victims of those mean mean social justice activists. While accusing social justice folks of “attacking” mommy bloggers, the article makes no reference to Tweets from attendees in which jokes were made about child labour and slavery. (There is one quote from PhD in Parenting but it doesn’t balance this out in the slightest. Way to go, LA Times!)

PhD in Parenting: Helping Themselves: Breastfeeding Advice Nestle-Style (guest blog)

If a mother’s desire to nurse her baby, her trust in the process, or her confidence in her own abilities can be eroded then that is a win for Big Formula. Take a look at the pages that follow and you will see that those are precisely the types of subliminal messages (breastfeeding is difficult, painful, icky, and unnecessary) in Nestle’s breastfeeding information.

Independent: The 40 million children who just didn’t exist

…millions are at increased risk of being press-ganged as child soldiers or prostitutes, of not being returned to their families if liberated, of having only limited access to healthcare and education, and being deprived of their legal rights.

Wheelchair Dancer: Glee

Gosh, those disabled people must be so brave and so strong if even we, a cast of actors can’t do it. How do those poor disabled people manage?