a brief intro to the fat blogosphere

So for another one of my research papers I've been learning a lot about the fat acceptance/fat rights movement. Of course, the main reason I'm interested in this topic is that I am fat, so this may not be interesting to anyone else, lol. But there was a really atrocious article on the MSN website called "What if no one were fat?". Not too long ago I wouldn't have thought of it problematic, but I've developed this new fat consciousness (for lack of a better and less amorphous term) that leads me to have a strong reaction to stuff like this. I won't give you the link to the original article because I don't want to generate any more hits for their site, but here's a response from a fat person that includes lots of tidbits from it:

http://ccafeteria.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-is-us-in-recession-because-of-all.html

Stuff like this is just one more reason the study of economics scares me - efficiency is god. Of course, there are lots of voices in the "marketplace of ideas," but scapegoating of any kind makes me uncomfortable. Although particularly when it's about me...