Monday, May 19, 2008

Amputee Runner Wins Right to Try for Olympic Spot

An exciting new development: Amputee Runner Wins Right to Try for Olympic Spot. Of course, people are arguing about this, that using these prosthetics is somewhat like using performance-enhancing drugs. This is a strange new development, that having a disability makes you "advantaged" rather than disadvantaged. It pretty much blows the old pity thinking out of the water, don't you think?