How are we going to free the Middle East

if we can't even keep our own freedom?

From The New York Times:

The New York City Board of Health voted yesterday to adopt the nation’s first major municipal ban on the use of all but tiny amounts of artificial trans fats in restaurant cooking, a move that would radically transform the way food is prepared in thousands of restaurants, from McDonald’s to fashionable bistros to Chinese take-outs.

That's OK with me! Fry my eggs in butter and make my biscuits with pure hog lard!

Of course this is evil. The next step will be mandatory gym memberships with reports of every citizen's participation in exercise programs, along with mandatory doctor visits being filed with the City's health department.

Think that's ridiculous? Think I'm using hyperbole? Go back to the New York City of 1960 and ask the people what they would think of a ban on smoking in bars and a ban on restaruants cooking with Crisco.

The camel's nose made it into the tent a long time ago and now his front legs are inside with his hump brushing the entrence as we speak.