How to do a shot when you can’t move your fingers

Nothing comes between a quadriplegic and her Jag Bomb.

I like to drink. What can I say? :)

- Tiff

Floor-buffing wheelchair new low in offensive inventions

Japan aims to make people in wheelchairs more useful by creating a floor-buffing and cleaning wheelchair.
 
I like wheelchair snowplows, but for some reason this pisses me off. I think it’s because the person in the wheelchair has absolutely no control of it. Talk about an invalid-ey feeling.

- Tiff

Jake Sully wheelchair action figure gets razzed

Hey Mattel, your Jake Sully wheelchair action figure can stand, has shabby seams, and looks nothing like Sam Worthington. Is this the best you can do?
If this was an action figure of me I’d be pissed. Good thing Jake Sully is a fictional character, and has no access to lawyers.

- Tiff

Minnesota paraplegic falls out of wheelchair, freezes to death

Well, this is about the most depressing news story I’ve read in a long while. We’ve lost another paraplegic to falling + cold weather, people. This is not good.

RIP Michael Lee Johnson

- Tiff

PS. I did not know him personally. He lived in the country.

Senator suggests no more “free scooters” to aide Recession; causes uproar

Save hundreds of billions, but strand millions? I’m not quite sure how this works.

The audacity!

- Tiff

Many Chinese dwarfs choose to live in an all-dwarf village. Would you?

In southern China lies the Kingdom of the Dwarves, a tiny village where Little People willingly choose to live, making ends meet by doing song/dance numbers for tourists. Is this good or bad for the future of Little People in China?

Read about this village here

- Tiff

Wheelchair “UFO” spotted at Burning Man. Was it you?

Hippie festivals are always full of crazies. But disabled crazies? Even better. 

Check out my blog on this badass wheelchair art and other ponderings on hippie festivals if you’re disabled!

- Tiff

WTF Farve

No, I do not like this at all. If the Vikings win the Super Bowl because of Farve it will be cheapened.

Down with the Farve!

*shakes head sadly*

- Tiff

So a drunk drives his powerchair into a hot tub…

Here’s what happens when you mix Wild Turkey, a quadriplegic, and a hotel hot tub.

Enjoy!

- Tiff

Remains of 4,000 year old paraplegic found in Vietnam

Why would a community care for someone with such a major impairment in a world where 50% of people didn’t make it past age five?

Read my thoughts on this amazing discovery here

- Tiff