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In a network economy, intermediaries have tremendous value. Everything about the web, especially the over 1 million web sites currently in existence, suggests that the expectation that the network economy favors disintermediation is exactly wrong. It is quite the opposite. Network technologies do not eliminate intermediaries. They spawn them. Networks are a cradle for intermediaries.

The fatuous and dishonorable attempt to posit conservatives as the prime engine of civil rights depends for success on the ignorance of the American people. Sadly, as anyone who has ever watched a Jay Walking segment on The Tonight Show can attest, the American people have ignorance in plenitude.

Culturally-speaking, fatness exerts a masculinizing (or defeminizing) force on women’s bodies, and a feminizing (or emasculating) force on men’s bodies, and if you identify as falling outside the convenient gender binary, well, then it tends to strip you of any sexual identity at all, so far as mainstream recognition is concerned. No matter how you identify and present yourself, gender-wise, fatness is going to fuck with it.

I can’t laugh at Antoine Dodson because I am Antoine Dodson. People like Antoine Dodson made me. Told me to stay in my books. Told me to be good. Told me to go to college. Told me to be successful and they cheered me on. People like Antoine Dodson love me and would look for me if I ever went missing.

My biggest beef with these kind of lowest-common-denominator taunts is that they’re completely lacking in any ingenuity or intelligence. Also, while mocking someone’s weight is meant to be a personal dig, it’s actually impersonal. The “fat chick” thing is so overused and tiresome that it’s really not specific enough to any one person. It’s basically the form letter of insults.