No email address, no reply, no blog ):

I could not find Windsor's email, so I sent the email below to the editor of The American Spectator, but I never received a reply.

Hello, my name is Lauren McCauley.  I am currently a junior at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis, IN.  In my AP Language and Composition class we are creating blogs about op ed writers and I chose Windsor Mann.  Our latest blog assignment requires us to write one post about our writer's latest article (http://spectator.org/archives/2010/11/17/fat-and-fatuous/) stating their topic, a concession, and support for their argument.  We are also required to contact our editor via email and describe what our task was for the previously explained post and ask about related issues to the topic discussed in the last article.  However; I was not able to find Windsor's email address on your website.  My teacher suggested contacting the editor, which brings me to where I am now.  I was wondering if you could possibly provide me with his email address.  It would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Lauren McCauley

Fat and Fatuous

Windsor Mann's latest essay, Fat and Fatuous, discusses how obesity seems to be more of an issue than it really is.

"If the weight of every body becomes everybody's concern, the regulatory antidotes will spread at obesity-like speed, creating yet another epidemic, but one that can be easily averted. All we have to do is do nothing. Is that too much to ask?"

A concession to this argument is that "In the United States, potbellies and thunder thighs are the look that never goes out of fashion."


Support of Windsor's claim:

1) "As troubling as widespread obesity is, widespread obesity prevention sounds much worse." 

2) "Most of the anti-obesity schemes floating around have one aspect in common: Their ultimate goal is to redesign American society, not American individuals."

3) "If you forget about the glut of oversized guts, the government will remind you."

• September was America's first childhood obesity awareness month.
• Michelle Obama started a program that is supposed to help solve childhood obesity, but is bringing more attention to it.
• Girl scouts have been accused of using girls to push cookies on a nation that doesn't need them.

 Personally, I both agree and disagree with what Windsor is saying.  I do believe that obesity in America is something that has gotten out of control, but I also believe that the government is making it appear worse than it is.