In the 1930s, the great excuse for the dole was unemployment. In the 1960s, poverty. But in the victim-ridden 21st century, it is summed up in one word: disability, and what a preposterous word it is. Disability: falling short of the average capacity for accomplishing a task, any task. Just as ability is a universal human trait, so too is disability. How many tenured professors in this country can play volleyball? How many Olympic athletes will someday be tenured professors? Everyone is disabled in some particular way. The idea that a disability as such should mark a person as a … Continue reading The New Welfare Bums