Wow man... In the past ten years or so my dad has veered to the right. I'd say I feel your pain, but that leaves him somewhere left of the Clintons. Uh, good luck?

Alice Waters,

Take a trip up to Richmond and spend a week w/ a working family. Or a working single-mother and her children. What you will see are the conditions in which much of us live (e.g., working 2+ jobs, living paycheck-to-paycheck, paying bills and dodging creditors, attempting to keep our children on the str8 and narrow, etc.).

Who, outside of The Peoples' Republic of Berkeley (and w/o your wealth), has the time and energy to live in Food Utopia?

PS- Salon readers: Yes, people actually do live the aforementioned lifestyle!

"D'ya think it's relevant that nearly every single Bobby Knight student athelete graduated?"

Did you graduate? From High School? The second sentence of your letter is missing about twenty hyphens (they look like this: - ). I had to read it 3 times to make sense of it. And it is postmodern.

Knight is an asshole, and he abuses his players like you abuse grammar and punctuation.

Being vegan, for most of the women I have ever met who are vegan, is basically a socially acceptable form of anorexia. Justify it all you want, it's an eating disorder for most people, who are scared to death of being fat.

i imagine your comment reflects more on society and how women are socialized than it does on veganism. and its really too bad... i don't believe most vegans- men and women- adopt the diet to become 'skinny bitches.' although weight loss may occur when one shifts to a diet that includes fresh fruit, veggies, whole grains, and a sane amount of calories, weight loss itself is often not the end, but rather a byproduct of healthy eating.