I exercise alone, thank you very much. I run three miles in a half hour at least five days a week, and I always follow up with bicycle sit-ups, reverse sit-ups, lunges with and without weights, and so on. I can already tell you what I eat every day: Grape Nuts and lowfat yogurt for breakfast, a turkey sandwich for lunch, lean meat and veggies for dinner, and veggie chips and fruit for occasional snacks. I drink water and skim milk. Maybe you read "160 lbs" as me saying I'm overwight: I did not, and am not. I'm in terrific shape, and could probably kick your sorry ass. My 160 lbs is in good part lean muscle.

My point, since you were too busy burying your head in your ass to actually catch it, is that people who think that Hollywood weight is normal are obviously too stupid to see that health is a lifestyle, not a body type. Almost every professional athlete in the world would be considered overweight or severely overweight judging by the BMI scale. My best friend, a woman who's 5'11" and probably 170 lbs, is a rower, and completely gorgeous... and by no means "fat." I can guarantee you that if I couldn't beat you silly, she undoubtedly could.

People who think that health is defined by body type or dress size or weight are obviously not terribly healthy themselves. That kind of compulsive weight maintenance, and the consequent prejudice against people they view as overweight, is obsession: Living a healthy lifestyle like I do and not getting caught up in judging other people is freedom. I suggest you try it.

The difference here, Anonymous, is that Alfredo is real an Italian name... the food was named after a person. And Linguini isn't even spelled right to be linguine. So his name is no more insulting than someone in America who is named, say, Pam Butterfield (Pam's cooking spray and Mrs. Butterfield's, anyone?).

But I guess you would realize that if you were actually Italian, as you seem to pretend to be by feigning offense at such harmless names.

Perhaps the subtitle of this article might have raised a few more eyebrows if it had read "the worst sports record since the Jews played the ovens."

But, oh, I guess tasteless jokes are okay as long as it's in the name of avant garde journalism.

Is there any reason in particular Salon felt compelled to publish this review the day before the book was actually released? I mean, surely they've heard of the craze surrounding the attempts to spoil the story for the world and stuff. I'd just think it would have been more prudent to wait until Friday night or Saturday when the book actually comes out.

Meanwhile, it doesn't look any better on liberals to get all offended at any instance of racism, sexism, homophobia, or any other form of bigotry, and then freakishly revel at the crudest jabs at Christianity. Conservative Christians don't have any monopoly on stupidity, banality, meanness, or hypocrisy, as this demonstrates....

Hadn't you heard? Gay marriage killed the dinosaurs.

I am as adamantly opposed to the Bush adminitration as any reasonable person can be, but even I am baffled by the huge backlash over this incident. Ostensibly, we are supposed to believe that this kid got tased because he was expressing his opinion.

But... come on people. Use your brain. Am I the only one who bothered to watch the video? This guy was screaming and fighting against the police, generally acting belligerent and from all appearances attempting to instigate the crowd to join him. He tried to make a political point and whoever was running the show decided that he was taking up too much time and not following the correct format for asking questions, so he was asked to leave the mic. Then they cut his mic and he kept going. Then the campus security came to escort him off the speaking platform and suddenly he goes nuts, accusing them of attempting to arrest him, and becoming physically disruptive.

This kid didn't get tased because of his opinion, folks. He got tased because he was an idiot and a jerk and he refused to cooperate with the authorities just because they wouldn't let him have his 15 minutes of fame.

Oh please. Get a life. This is not Nazi Germany, but thanks for branding everyone who disagrees with you as a Nazi. That's really productive in this kind of situation. For Pete's sake, can't you people discuss something rationally without resorting to sad little insults?

People who raise an eyebrow at mass response to a situation, people who are skeptics to public outcry over alleged "injustice," are not the stuff Nazis are made of. People who are easily enflamed by situations they don't understand and are eager to blame conspiracy theories and ideologists for everything in the world? That's a different story.

You are ridiculous. You attacked me first, calling me a Nazi, and you accuse me of resorting to ad hominems? Just because I don't agree with your faulty analysis of a youtube video of some kid acting like an idiot and getting his just deserts doesn't make me a Nazi. It just makes you look like a political zealot.

Sorry, I will save my outrage for when people actually do get tased for speaking their minds. Not when people get tased for being physically belligerent in the same room as a US Senator and verbally and physically roughing-up members of a security force. There are people being oppressed who actually need your help. I suggest you try to find them rather than wasting your time calling me a Nazi or gushing politically-charged crocodile tears over some dumb student.