Sometimes, I just need a name. I need the name of the person employed by United Airlines who thought that this movie
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GM, What Were They Thinking?
This month's news from General Motors would normally merit a "meet irony" post, but when a company announces that it will reduce its workforce by 25,000 workers over the next three years right after it has offered the employee discount to anyone who walks in the door for the next month, it's tragedy not irony.
More about GM and its financial troubles after I can pick my jaw up off the floor.
Lactivism
I feel sorry for Barbara Walters, whose remark about feeling uncomfortable at the sight of a woman breastfeeding on an airplane next to her set off the lastest wave of "lactivism." I guess I'm a lactivist, too. I think that mothers should not just be permitted but encouraged to breastfeed their infants and toddlers whenever and wherever the mothers deem it appropriate. It's not like a 6 month old can chew gum if the change in cabin pressure starts to bother him.
Ms. Walters only claims that she felt uncomfortable--there are some reports in the article linked above of people taking offense. If the sight of a mother breastfeeding a child in public offends your sensibilities, then I don't think there is much sense in your sensibilities. I'm glad to see that nursing moms are having "nurse-ins" near ABC and are lobbying other companies for more tolerant behavior. My favorite is Nurse-at-Starbucks (although I hope those lattes are decaf), and we've been contributors to La Leche League since we became parents.