I glanced at the papers in the grocery store this morning and all newspapers I saw featured the latest unanimous pro-business decision by the Supreme Court. The ruling in *Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams*, apparently holds that work is not a "major life activity ... of central importance", and that when applying the Americans with Disabilities Act, one must look at disabilities that "substantially limit" one's ability to do such things as washing one's face, or brushing one's teeth. As they point out in the third paragraph of their opinion, "major life activities refers to those activities that are of central importance to daily life".
One would think that laboring under the control of others, for extended periods during the most productive hours of the day, would be of the *utmost* "central importance" to one's life. But apparently the Court believes that labor for others is simply some sort of gift from a benevolent Father, and that when such labor causes injury that prevents someone from further working, the benevolent Father has every right simply to withdraw the gift. In passing they note that a lower District Court "rejected respondents arguments that gardening, doing housework, and playing with children are major life activities". One wonders what is left of a person after having these activities and others removed from "major life activities". This one needs to be filed under "Events which Show how Business Controls the World". Bill
