...really, it sounds like bad Snape fanfic.

Why is anyone supposed to like this character?

Because she's good. Her idiotic life as a drippy doormat inspires others to be good. I like to think her books served as camouflage for the dime novels the children were really reading.

If Jesus had behaved the way Elsie Dinsmore did, the Apostles would have all been standing around after his arrest saying, "Oh, thank god we won't have to deal with that spineless whiner anymore. Is there any more wine?"

FYI...for those who don't read LJ, I'm essentially going dark until after classes are done. I'm only allowing myself an hour of online time a day, so I doubt I will be able to check in here. Please send good calming and focusing thoughts. I have a lot on my plate.

Good thoughts and calming ~~~ma to vw.

I thought the antibiotic that I took for 5 days would take of the UTI and the bronchitis. NSM. Hope doc will call in another script without having to see me. Otherwise, back to Urgent Care I go. Blah.

Oh, and my officemate says he doesn't like the way the media is demonizing Chris Brown. And he also said that an offhand comment that I made was in poor taste. Dude, you're defending Chris Brown. You so don't get to decide "poor taste."

Dude, you bite someone you're pretty much demonizing yourself.

I thought the antibiotic that I took for 5 days would take of the UTI and the bronchitis.

Yeah, they respond to different anti-biotics, which sucks. I've been there! Sorry you are there now.

Stabby stabby. I have to edit an opinion piece on how pharmacists who refuse to dispense legally prescribed drugs that they object to, but then are forced to because of laws and regulations, are OPPRESSED and made to live "double lives" with their "personal morality" at home and a "fake, allegedly neutral morality" at their job.

The author goes on to whine about how pharmacists' rights are being trampled under patients' rights to autonomy and self-determination in their own healthcare. No, seriously.

Honestly, I'd have less of a problem with this moralizing whiner if she weren't so utterly dismissive of "patient autonomy" and the patient's right to obtain a legally prescribed drug.

She also complains that regulations state that if a pharmacist objects and doesn't want to dispense the drug, she cannot tell the patient why she's objecting. Well, YEAH. Because the patient doesn't give a shit about YOUR FUCKING ISSUES.

(This is a Canadian pharmacist, BTW. Apparently they're more oppressed there than in the US.)

If you're a Buddhist vegan, don't go to work in a steakhouse.

If you have a goddamn problem dispensing legally prescribed drugs, then don't become a pharmacist. It's really that simple.

All I really want to write on the manuscript is "Cry more, emo pharmacist!"

t edit But Cake just came on the radio -- and I'm at home, where I'm ALLOWED to listen to the radio -- so that's cool. Plus, I'm finished with the article. So woot.

Let me guess, the drugs she's bitching about being forced to dispense aren't, like, viagra or antibiotics, right?

No, no. I didn't think so.

She made an effort at sounding all high-minded by saying that a pharmacist should be allowed to object to dispensing an overdose of a cardiac drug, or a drug the patient is deathly allergic to, etc.

Well, yeah. Because that's a matter of therapeutic efficacy, you dumb bint.

And it's disingenuous, because if there's been a court case where a pharmacist refused to dispense an excessive dose of blood thinner because it would make someone bleed to death, but then the pharmacist was fired, I sure haven't heard it.

So -- nice try, but total straw man.

total straw man.

An incredibly lame and sucky straw man, who makes all other straw men feel better about themselves, because they realize at least they're not that lame-ass pharmacist straw man.