Can't Get No Respect: Activists for the calorically challenged say the current anti-obesity crusade is like a witch hunt. The overweight truly can't get a break, not even in the court room, where justice is supposedly blind:

Walter Lindstrom, a San Diego attorney specializing in weight-discrimination cases, said overweight plaintiffs usually must prove that acts of bias against them are covered by federal laws prohibiting discrimination against disabled people.

'These cases are more difficult from a proof standpoint, and also because you're dealing with a very unpopular class of clients,' Lindstrom said. 'Juries are generally disgusted with your average size-related plaintiff. You have to get past that, and have them see the plaintiff as someone with a true medical problem.'