[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Supervised Ingestation

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Supervised Ingestation
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1191205682.shtml


   Starting tomorrow morning, all breakfasts served in Minnesota
   restaurants are subject to police supervision. Ditto with lunch,
   dinner, and adult beverages. You can (so far), eat several days' worth
   of fat, salt, or cholesterol. You can drink yourself into a stupor.
   But don't you dare light up, even with the permission of the owner of
   the private property. It is the judgment of our Legislature and
   Governor that we are not smart enough to make such decisions on our
   own.
   We appear to be making some good progress in debunking "Global
   Warming." The anti-smoking lobby is just as bereft of evidence, even
   more so. While there is some evidence of some warming in the 20th
   century (none in the 21st century so far), the "second hand smoke"
   Nazis (our Governor among them) have nothing. No death certificates,
   no research, no statistical analysis showing causation, nothing. And
   yet they won. And we lost, including me a lifetime non-smoker.
   Will I be healthier as a result? Of course not. Will my grandchildren
   be healthier? Show me how. In fact, show me that you aren't in fact
   harming them by limiting low level exposure that would inoculate them?
   I lose because still more of our favorite places will close.
   Particularly at risk are the family / sole proprietor places who don't
   have the money or options that the franchises have to overcome the
   loss of business we've seen everywhere else this has been tried.
   (Beware of phony claims based on tax revenues or hotel occupancy
   rates.)
   I score this as another triumph of our modern education system,
   turning out a population that actually seems to think this is a good
   idea, even if they can't begin to defend it.