In fact, Canadians are Americans, to be perfectly accurate. However, Fox is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He's got as good a right to call himself an American as anyone.

This Video Dog gig is really sweet. Even when they only take about 30 seconds, you don't have to actually watch the videos (Jim Talent is very clearly named), or be copy-edited (there's no apostrophe in the possessive "its")!

Honi soit qui mal y pense. What precisely is "homophobic" about Clooney kidding about lusting after Matt Damon? Where was the slur? If anything, it's gay-positive: he's not afraid to be associated with the idea of gayness, and he's implying that someone who's generally accepted as being straight might well be gay. It's funny because he's got such a rep as a raging heterosexual, not because of any aspersion, explicit or implicit, against gay men. If Nathan Lane made a joke about wanting to sleep with Madonna, would you be offended?

Since when does this publication take its cues from Matt Drudge?

If Keith Haring's radiant baby grew up and danced out into the world, he would be this guy. Delighted, and delightful, and totally un-self-conscious. Lovely.

Remind me why this bland kid should be my "ambassador to the world"?

Oh, he definitely shouldn't be your ambassador to the world, as an ambassador should accurately represent the people whose emissary he is. For you, I suggest Nathan Thurm.

Even celebrities get STDs. Herpes is very common and lots of people have it for a very long time without knowing it. It’s possible that Angelina didn’t know, that Brad lied and that Jen didn’t put it together until much later - oh, the drama.

Any number of things is possible; the question that ought to be asked before publishing something in what purports to be a news outlet is whether there is any legitimate reason to believe that thing actually occurred. Even in gossip columns, real news publications make an effort to confirm sources and verify stories; they don't print every innuendo that makes its way around Hollywood, or if they do, they label it as such, rather than implying that there's any real basis (other than schadenfreude) to believe it.

Did you actually read the post on the website they referenced? It goes on to allege that Jolie, Jennifer Garner, and Katie Holmes all must have herpes, based on the writer's considered medical opinion as a practicing moron that that would be the only reason for an otherwise healthy woman to have a cesarean. Thank you, Dr. Knownothing. I'll be looking for your book, "More Diagnoses I Pulled Out of My Ass", appearing soon under the new Salon Health imprint.

If Salon wants to be a random website that publishes anything its readers submit, that's its privilege. I'm certainly not going to pay to read "news" gathered by those standards -- which seem to have infiltrated the publication in general, witness the "I sat next to someone on a bus once who went to Duke, so I have a valid basis for pontificating about the rape case" stories recently featured on the site. If you think that's worth paying for, mazel tov. I have some Florida real estate I'd like to discuss with you.

The Pitt/Jolie STD allegation is beyond the pale. It's stomach-turning that you'd publish something so absolutely unsubstantiated, no matter who had already done so. What, this person (whose bona fides I'm sure you've exhaustively researched) is privy to highly intimate information about Pitt and Jolie because he or she happens to work at Fox? So I guess the janitor at Salon knows who you're making it with, right? Oh, and the outcome of your latest gynecological exam as well. Salon is after all a much smaller organization, and it's much more likely that the janitor there has the goods on your sex life than that one Fox employee has an inside scoop on two of the thousands of other people employed by a huge multinational corporation simply by virtue of that entirely temporary mutual affiliation. Jesus, how inane.

What a couple of letter writers have touched on is completely missing in this article: Singer's most controversial ideas have to do with how the disabled should be treated, and they are nothing short of reprehensible. A man who is concerned with the feeling states of chickens and not with those of "defective" human beings has nothing to say that compels me to pay attention to him.

Please don't confuse him with someone who is arguing for an unlimited respect for all life: there are plenty of human lives Singer considers to have little worth. Singer actually doesn't seem to get the insanity of an attempt to weigh which human lives are valuable and which aren't -- and we're not talking about Terri Schiavo here, we're talking about kids with Downs syndrome or cerebral palsy. I don 't know why this article completely leaves out this strain of Singer's thought, making him seem much more sympathetic and humane than he actually is. Don't be fooled.