Some dumb American writer/traveller complained in an article in today's Chronicle that she couldn't get vegetables in France. She even accused the French of not liking vegetables. Nothing could be further from the truth but in her warped vegetarain attitude, it was vegetables or nothing. You see, the French know how to eat and they eat everything in moderation. They don't super size junk food and even would like to stay away from unhealthy things but I guess once you are a vegetarian that means meat is poison, if only in the mind. I always had well balanced meals of meat or fish plus vegetables in my journeys to France. Rikke Jorgensen is a real twirp and needs to grow up.

On another matter, Tova Wolking of Oakland expresses some very good thoughts in her comments in the "2 Cents" column in which she says "This country is obsessed with Christian religion and imposition of so-called moral values on the private lives of others. Personal decisions about pregnancy, death and marriage have become public targets for extreme, often hateful judgment. It's a shame our country no longer values individual liberty and privacy rights." She is is dead-on with her comments. Thank you Ms. Wolking.