I don't care if your past nanny state edicts have been met with eventual bleating acceptance by a majority of your people. It still isn't right.
If you want to discuss whether in the 1950s people thought 16 ounces of pop was enough for three people, how much government intrusion was enough for free people back then?
Bugger off, mayor.
UPDATE: Perhaps I'm under-estimating the mayor. Maybe he just wants New York City to be the place where the sequel to the hit movie, The Hunger Games--The Thirsty Games--will be filmed.
UPDATE: Lileks goes to town:
A culture that redefines food choices as moral issues will demonize the people who don’t share the tastes of the priest class. A culture that elevates eating to some holistic act of ethical self-definition - localvore, low-carbon-impact food, fair trade, artisanal cheese - will find the casual carefree choices of the less-enlightened as an affront to their belief system. Leave it to Americans to invent a Puritan strain of Epicurianism.
Seriously. The proportionality of their reaction is just bizarre. The words being used to condemn soft drinks larger than 16 ounces wouldn't be heard coming out of their mouths regarding Islamist terrorists.
