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Check your freezers! Ground beef recall.

You can still help the fight for marriage equality in Maine. If you are a Maine resident, you need to vote. In fact, if there is a local election in your area today, please be sure to vote. These elections tend to have very low turn-out and its how extremists get weird referendums passed and anti-science people onto school boards. It's always good to vote.

What makes an American? Or, let's watch people be anti-immigrant racists about the guy who just won the New York City Marathon.

There's been another arrest in the Richmond gang rape.

Amazing environmentally friendly alternative to a converted van for those who use wheelchairs. Of course, it just seems to be in Europe right now, and the top speed is relatively low (so no going on a highway with this!) but it looks great for getting around a city.

Asperger's as a vanishing diagnosis.

This guy was almost Han Solo. Works for me. Check the smile.

Who you share a hotel with can be why cons are often unexpectedly funny.

Look, I saw this on 5251962's journal, and now you need to know too, just because: Bats have oral sex.

DAVID TENNANT, YOU LEFT DOCTOR WHO FOR THIS!?!?1?!!?!?!??

The things I learn on Twitter: there are lesbians on the 90210 retread.

hughcasey has an alert for the dino-obsessed!

Missing Sky Harbor baggage found.

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The electric car for wheelchair users is pretty awesome (and double points for the places that provide them free as part of healthcare). It also gets extra points for being designed and sized such that it can be parked in a regular parking spot, thus not limiting the user to the one or two allotted specifically "accessible" spots.

It does suffer, however, from the assumption that the only thing a person using a wheelchair will need to transport in said vehicle is themselves. Single occupancy is somewhat typical with the smaller electric vehicles, but unless I'm missing something (which i might be, since there are only a couple of pictures and those focus on how the chair fits into the car) there is no compartment for storage of things like, say, a backpack or a bag or two of groceries. This assumption, even in the development/provision of devices that provide better access, that basic tasks like grocery shopping and other self/home-care tasks will be done by someone else (often an unspecified, invisible, unfunded someone else) is a barrier to access/inclusion/participation that gets missed a lot.