okay, I can't take it anymore, I'm too pissed off at this anti-fatty people guy so I'm going to point out the idiocy in his article please bare with me

"As a nation, we have become so fat that we really do deserve to be called ugly Americans."
what does being fat have to do with being ugly? Stop your collectivism, and stop caring about what people call you

"statistics show that obesity causes 300,000 deaths each year and costs the economy $117 billion per year in additional health-care expenses"
people going to doctors doesn't "cost" the economy anything, it's the free exchange of services & wealth. Fat dude gives, doctor receives, therefore the value of the economy is the same.

"In today’s climate, it seems that voters would sooner accept a politician who sleeps with sheep than a politician who would willfully raise taxes or invent new ones"
Heck yeah! that bovine love affair neither costs me money nor affects me in any way.

"We already have special taxes on cigarettes and alcohol in hopes of discouraging widespread use of these deadly substances. Yet only a fringe group of militant anti-tax Libertarians (hey, some of my best friends are militant anti-tax Libertarians, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think they’re wackos) would fail to see their value."
Sweet, I now possess an adjective that I share only with Osama and his cronies. Boo-yah Militants!

"Americans don’t need government to be our Big Brother or, in this case, our Big Nanny. I would argue that we do"
Get out of my country you pinko-commie liberal crack whore! Move to a nursing home in sweden if you want to be cared for. The rest of us would like to run our own lives if you don't mind.

Now I'm going out to eat a 1/2 pound hamburger, a bucket of deep-fat fried fat, a gross of twinkies, and drink a gallon of Mountain Dew.

Cue the Demerest Laugh
Hah!