What happens to disabled adults? Are group homes good or evil? Lots of discussion about that in New Jersey right now.
Why does history look fondly on Robert E. Lee, but not Ulysses S. Grant?
Pregnant inmates are shackled when they are in labor. Ugh!
Daredevil is so, so, so good.
Apt. 11d 
We’re not looking forward to the day when Autistic Youngest ends her education. Right now, she has options and support. When she’s done, there’s none that we can see, besides the vague and unhelpful system of “Community Care Access Centres” which seem to specialize in scheduling meetings about how they can’t provide you anything.
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Most twentieth-century historians were copperheads, so the history they wrote glorified the Confederacy. (The few exceptions, e.g., Bruce Catton, tended to be non-academics.) Check back in another century and we’ll see how Grant and Lee are doing.
As to why most twentieth-century historians were copperheads, I would say that the Confederacy was a vehicle for expressing their alienation from the prevailing American culture.
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The article was interesting in describing the short term effects of the changing rules on adult services. I think that not infrequently these top-down mandates (on services and education) are motivated by theory that plays out very differently in practice.
I also think we’ve seen the dark side of the group home service they describe (25 adults, living together, rarely seeing anyone outside of the institution, with work brought in house, . . .): it was depicted in “Boys” in the bunkhouse in the NY Times, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/09/us/the-boys-in-the-bunkhouse.html.
And, some of the practices that the house says is intrinsic to their model are direct contributors (most notably the isolation of the group).
I hope the regulators listen to the complaints, but consider the darker effects of the model, as well.
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