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brettvk commented on the blog post The Big Droop
My departed grandmother propagandized me against abortion in the ’80s by telling me that she’d had [at least] one during the Depression, when grandpa was out of work and they already had two children they could hardly feed — she breastfed her son until he was 3 for that reason. At that time there was a neighborhood abortionist who took care of such things. Grandma professed great shame at later realizing she’d committed such a sin. I thought then and now she’d simply done what was necessary for the survival of her family, but she was determined to make a big moral lesson for me out of it. I think she suspected I wasn’t saving myself for marriage.
Grandma wouldn’t have used condoms because men used those with bad women and she was too respectable. That left coitus interruptus, extended nursing and abortion as the available birth control methods; the first two were at least free.
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brettvk commented on the blog post They Shoot Warlords, Don’t They?
Delurking to say, I’ve looked to TBogg for premium snark since the days of Table Talk, and he never disappoints. But for a while now I’ve felt that firedoglake is a less than optimum venue for him. Or the bassets. Just sayin’.
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brettvk commented on the blog post Jared Loughner Was Christine O’Donnell’s Secret Boyfriend!
I work for Walmart’s mutant sister, Sam’s Club, and I can tell you what kind of people they hire for gunselling or any other jobs — anybody. They don’t train hires because it’s a waste of time and money and there’s too much turnover to justify it. Other than showing new hires an anti-union DVD on the first day and “computer-based training” that won’t challenge low-literates, that’s it. I think the topics of CBT are all legally mandated or they wouldn’t bother with them either. Gun department employees would only get extra skills if there’s a monetary penalty to Walmart stockholders in withholding them.
