[steve-b]

Next time you're in a rundown diner and the 17-year-old waitress is eight months pregnant, don't tut "What a tragedy" and point her to the nearest Planned Parenthood clinic. Leave her a large tip instead.

I will leave a tip as large, or as small, or even as nonexistant, as the service warrants. The notion that I ought to subidize personal irresponsibility makes me wonder who this leftist is, and what he has done with Mark Steyn.

[B-Chan]

"Next time you're in a rundown diner and the 17-year-old waitress is eight months pregnant, don't tut "What a tragedy" and point her to the nearest Planned Parenthood clinic. Leave her a large tip instead."

I will leave a tip as large, or as small, or even as nonexistant, as the service warrants. The notion that I ought to subidize personal irresponsibility makes me wonder who this leftist is, and what he has done with Mark Steyn.

Consider decaf.

[Cicero]

Tipping is voluntary, taxes are involuntary.

If you don't want to tip a young woman trying to make it in the world yet unwilling to kill her baby to make it easier on herself, that's your decision. Helping other people out isn't "leftist."

Personally, I thought it was a great ending to a great article.

[Thorondir]

It was a poignant sentence to illuminate the article's whole point.

But it seem that the whole point is what you missed if this post is your whole point.

And what is more irresponsible; aborting your race into oblivion or refusing to kill your unplanned baby?

Sheesh!

[Damocles]

Not much compassion in that there conservatism...

[Do Be]

You're a hard hearted man, Stevie B.

Sounds like you're cheap, too.

You are also personally responsible for the amount of charity in your heart.

[netmilsmom]

He never said that eighth month pregnant waitress was unmarried. Maybe she is working with a husband and although they are not in the best financial state she chose not to abort. I think that's what he is trying to say.

[arthurus]

that I ought to subidize personal irresponsibility

Thus, I take it that you define pregnancy as "irresponsibility".