I Have A Mom, And Her Name Is Not Mike
New York's Nanny-In-Chief Michael Bloomberg had his large soda-banning ass handed to him by a judge, writes Michael M. Grynbaum in The New York Times:

In an unusually critical opinion, Justice Milton A. Tingling Jr. of State Supreme Court in Manhattan called the limits "arbitrary and capricious," echoing the complaints of New York business owners and consumers who had deemed the rules unworkable and unenforceable, with confusing loopholes and voluminous exemptions.

The decision comes at a sensitive time for Mr. Bloomberg, who is determined to burnish his legacy as he enters the final months of his career in City Hall, and his administration seemed caught off guard by the decision. Before the judge ruled on Monday, Mr. Bloomberg had called for the soda limits to be adopted by cities around the globe; he now faces the possibility that one of his most cherished endeavors will not come to fruition before he leaves office, if ever.

..."I've got to defend my children, and yours, and do what's right to save lives," the mayor said. "Obesity kills. There's no question it kills." He added, "We believe that the judge's decision was clearly in error, and we believe we will win on appeal."

First of all, if you really wanted to stop obesity, you'd ban the sale of bread. But, that would require, in addition to a huge degree of meddling assholehood, a knowledge of actual dietary science instead of the "Eeek! Don't eat salt!" dietary hearsay Michael Bloomberg goes by.

Second, there's a reason I don't go in people's homes and redecorate against their will to prevent people from tripping and ending up in the hospital or dead, and that's that they haven't invited me in -- to their homes or their lives.

This is not a giant society of children waiting for their mayoral mommy to tell them what they can have for a snack and Michael Bloomberg needs to disabuse himself of the notion that he has any right to tell anybody what to do, save for asking somebody who's stepped on his foot to move theirs, etc.

A tweet by Greg Pollowitz:

@GPollowitz
.@piersmorgan 80% of NYC HS grads can't read at level and you're worried about a soda ban that, if enacted, wouldn't even ban the Big Gulp?