That ad has been all over Salon to an extent that I haven't seen since the butt people were advertising ass cleansers.

I don't care how interesting the show might be, no Salon columnist has any business reviewing it in the same week that it took over your entire site.

Heather, dear. You have been whored out, by implication at least. I will not read your article this time, even though I love your stuff in the dearest platonic way (review my letters for oodles of sycophantic swill).

If somebody drops that much on promotion here, there should be a firewall that prohibits comment for a month at least. Even if the same promotion is everywhere else as well.

It looks very wrong to me, and makes me feel icky and not want to read your article.

So I won't.

We ate horse when I was a kid, during the Nixon recession.

It was cheap and good. I'd eat it again without any qualms.

A horse without a home is livestock, period. Pack it off to a nearby slaughterhouse, regulated by U.S. inspectors, staffed by U.S. workers, and humanely butcher the animal so its meat can be used for pets and people. If you don't think slaughterhouses butcher humanely, then work to get all livestock animals better conditions, not just cute horses.

Stupid "It's cute, I don't wanna know you're killing it" laws benefit no one at all, most especially the animals. The long commute to an extra-national slaughterhouse all by itself is going to be protracted and stressful for the animal. Yet that long ride is still probably the cheapest way to legally dispose of a 1000 lb animal, so it isn't going away.

Grow up, America.

"Seriously, breed associations NEED TO BE HEAVILY REGULATED so they QUIT PROMOTING INDISCRIMINATE BREEDING."

Good. Make it so.

Until then, we ignorant domestic horse slaughter supporters have the correct approach, despite our apparent lack of right to hold opinions of our own.

When you accomplish your task of eliminating indiscriminate breeding, surplus horses will not be around for the slaughterers to utilize, and the problem will be solved.

Currently, it would be cheaper for a domestic slaughter industry to implement a few horse-specific transport and humane death requirements than they are currently spending transporting big animals hundreds of miles and crossing customs to access foreign facilities.

Deal with the excess horse population in the U.S. and the profitability of unregulated foreign slaughterhouses will disappear. If you and those who agree with can't get horse reproduction under control, then a regulated domestic slaughter industry is the most humane and economically intelligent solution.

I love eating Tilapia. Guess what they eat?

Fish shit. Tilapia are used to clean aquaculture tanks after they've become fouled with excess excrement and food debris.

Disgusting? Maybe, but they still taste damn good to me!

We need to start shifting our appetites to fish that can be farmed efficiently and economically, and leave the wild stocks as a special treat.

It's probably better for Orcas to live on a diet of wild-caught salmon than it is for us to consume them. Just keep the Atlantic salmon farms in the Atlantic, and learn to farm Pacific varieties (or Char, or something else yummy) in the Pacific so we don't screw up species isolation.

Also, don't over-concentrate fish farms (although, compared to current agriculturally-generated estuary dead zones, fish farms are small potatoes).

We gotta get smart.

Also, contraception for humans is an extremely good idea.

From the first page of letters for this article.

Very good.

Hard fact. GLBT folks are between 10 and 20 percent of the population. You folks don't carry a whole lot of votes, percentage-wise.

There are also some other pressing needs facing 100% of our population. Healthcare, our economy, global warming.

Your needs and rights are 100 percent legitimate. But your demographic is rather small. Expecting a universal leader like Obama to sacrifice 100 percent goals for minority rights (and, please remind me what Obama has done specifically for African Americans in his first 180 days?) is an exhibition of tunnel vision.

He's on your side. But don't expect him to throw away everything else in order to please you first.

You're not that important in the larger scheme of things. Neither am I, for that matter. But I don't expect Obama to concentrate on me.

You've officially created the largest left-right collection of nutcases in Salon history, with a "rational fringe" of aghast commentators who point out your frequently purple prose.

An interesting mental exercise for you might be culling all the favorable letters after one of your columns, reading them together, and visualizing the crowd you produce. Then think of yourself surrounded by them, sans bodyguard.

It might not be a pleasant mental picture, but I'm sure you'd find a way to blame it on Obama.

Palin is a shallow, batshit-crazy flake.

Listening to her press announcement, I got the very strong impression that Palin thinks she is doing something politically daring and "mavericky".

She apparently doesn't realize that she's made a public ass of herself, and that she will now sink into obscurity with a bizarre public display as the coda to her undistinguished career.

Repugnicants are dropping like flies these days.

Ain't nothing right about the Michael Jackson situation. Ain't nothing ever going to be exactly right.

My 11 year old daughter said it seemed like Michael died 15 years ago. I think he mostly did.

Watching the buzzards at their work in the aftermath isn't something I felt up to.

Thanks for doing it for me, and summing up the proceedings with brevity and restraint.

Rest in Peace, Michael.