Comments of the Day: Lactation Not Related to Pregnancy? What?

We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them.

So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day’s work. Maybe two comments, even.

This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit, clarity and whatever else we feel like at the moment.

We reported on a Houston federal judge’s decision that a company was free to fire a breast-pumping woman because, he said, lactation is not related to pregnancy.

Several readers weighed in.

Roxanna wrote:

Total idiot!

Lo wrote:

So women lactate at will?

And Anthem281 wrote:

This judge works for corporate America.

This article appears in Feb 9-15, 2012.