Pretty Creatures

    13 Jul 2010

    “Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”
    —

    via Boing Boing

    Clementine Paddleford, proto-foodie, Kansan, awesomesauce. I stumbled over this quote while rifling through some back-issues of Saveur at my Dad’s house and thought it needed to be shared.

    6 May 2008

    She would give them the finger, but…

    From Boing Boing:

    Woman without hands asked for fingerprints

    Victoria Modise, of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa, lost her ID and was told she had to get fingerprinted to get a new one. The problem is that Modise has no arms. Apparently the SA Human Rights Commission is “deeply concerned” about the incident. From The Herald Online:

    (Spokesman Vincent) Moaga said the commission was deeply concerned by this incident…

    “Home Affairs should look at international practices and see what system can be put in place to assist people with disabilities to get their IDs.”

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