Good grief. It's the 1990s all over again, when studies that pointed out how much fat was in our food were portrayed by the restaurant industry as the "food police" and "ruining everyone's fun."

It reminds me of nothing more strongly than my nephew when he was 12 years old. Whenever something stupid or dangerous would come up, someone would invariably describe the consequences as a question, such as "You don't want to set the house on fire, do you?" or "You don't want to fall off the roof and break your neck, do you?" His invariable answer was "yes!" He was his own man and independent and by God, he didn't care how stupid it was for how little gain, he was gonna do it!

Are all "libertarians" this easy to manipulate, getting them to do more of anything just by proposing to ban it?

(For the record, as an ACLU-style civil libertarian, I don't think the NYC ordinance can stand, not only because a city doesn't have the authority to ban GRAS foodstuffs, but also because it's just a bad idea. I'd rather see everything have trans fat content listed on the menu, an entirely sensible proposal that the restaurant industry will also destroy the earth to prevent.)

Actually, I suspect Mr Chaffin has been doing things this way all along, and wished to state so for public consumption.

In which case, it's obvious who's being manipulated, and it isn't Mr Chaffin.

Suggestion: If you must wear chains, as the party faithful insist you must, wear some that aren't so easy to pull.

I think I'd be more impressed with this if he used LARD and butter. Crisco and Oleo are pretty much the same as margarine. Which, of course, makes them the result of work by Cheese-Eating French Surrender Monkeys (for real.) Real Americans use LARD, damn it!

;)

And besides, lard has no trans fats. :)