No, I'm not but I was able to understand what he was trying to say-clumsily, yes-without sending him 10 irate comments.

He's apologized several times. Jeez.

Your post didn't bother me, FYI.

I remember the oil embargo of the early 70s when you could only buy gas every other day-and there were long lines-and that gas was around 75 cents a gallon for most of my childhood.

Yes, one of the SXSW tippy- top executives is covered in tattoos and is highly intelligent, gentle and one of the nicest guys in Austin.

If his middle name is Wayne or Lee, he is a serial killer. Truth.

Dov Charney's son?

Randall Charlton III? Not the name I would expect in this story.

I am limited to cheese without rennet and can't remember about Tillamook. I'll check. And you're right about the aroma (bouquet?) but I love it.

I honestly thought that the comments would be anti-gay, because people are jerks like that. Glad to see that people are still crazy jerks in other ways, too.

OK, it sounds as if your dad was somewhat supportive but yikes, I hear you on the pantry offerings and I'm glad you've found your way out of that lifestyle.

God. Jerk. Thanks for giving me the nutshell.

When I was a film major at UT Austin back in the early 90s, a mass media professor warned against synergy in the media industry. He argued that, as media companies became conglomerates looking at nothing more than the bottom line, this exact thing would happen. And it did.

Dang, what did I miss??

I'm sorry; I meant, "Where do you see that this writer is making fun of her weight?" I know it happens over and over again-which is shameful-but I didn't see it in the article bits I read just now.

You asked for healthier foods and your parents denied you? I'm sorry for your child self; that's incredibly awful of them.

And I see you have fine taste in cheese. I'm a Dubliner Reserve gal myself.

I absolutely agree with everything you say but why do you think her weight comes into this specific situation? I haven't had time to read the Salon article yet.

And, even though I canceled my comment above because it was incomplete/uninteresting, kinja still posted. Thanks, Kinja!

Thank goodness my son never did that but he was an outlier, I think.