Fucking Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart pharmacist Brent Beams, undated photo.

Christ. Like you didn't have enough reasons to avoid Wal-Mart already.

This month, Tashina Byrd, her boyfriend and her 4-year-old son headed to a Springfield Wal-Mart to pick up some things, including Plan B.

Byrd, 23, of Springfield, and her boyfriend, Brian O’Neill, 37, of Columbus, said a condom broke.

When the pharmacy attendant asked pharmacist Brent Beams about it, "He shook his head and laughed," Byrd said.

The attendant told them the store had Plan B but that nobody would give it to them, the couple said.

They asked for a store manager, who "came over and said, ‘The pharmacist has the law on his side,’ " O’Neill said.

A CVS pharmacist in Springfield later fulfilled the couple’s request, and Byrd took the first of two pills within 12 hours of the contraceptive mishap.

Reached last week at the pharmacy, Beams explained his position: "I believe in preserving life, and I do not believe in ending life, and life begins at conception."

I'm pretty sick of hearing about these poor, put-upon pharmacists who are simply standing up for the things they believe in, and how no one should force them to, you know, do their fucking jobs.

If you want a job where you never have to dispense a prescription with which you disagree, don't fucking become a pharmacist.

It's pretty simple. It's not like you're faced with a choice of either starving to death ('cause a pharmacy job is all that's available) or dealing with serious moral quandaries daily. The median income for a pharmacist in the US is just over $100,000 per year these days. The median personal income for everyone over age 25? Just over $32,000 per year.

So these douchebags can pack sand. Fuck 'em. They don't wanna fill prescriptions? They can make less money. Isn't holy poverty something to which to aspire, anyway? And isn't greed a sin?