Archive for the 'Nanny State' Category

I Live in the Nanny State

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

California just passed a law that will ban trans-fats in restaurants.  The premise for passing the law (heart disease) is based on junk science.  Even if there was a definitive link to heart disease, whether or not I choose to eat donuts cooked in trans-fat is my business and my business alone!  I want the [...]

Far From Great Britain

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Here’s a quick quiz.  Fill in the blank.
“Enough is enough – we need to get tough on ______ in this country and our judges should be handing out tough sentences, not brandishing their own.”
If you guessed “guns”, you would be wrong.  The correct answer is “knives”.  They haven’t learned a damn thing from the their [...]

Fools Britannia

Monday, July 7th, 2008

The U.K. keeps sliding deeper and deeper into the worst type of Orwellian nanny-state.  It’s become so bad that I find myself saying to myself, “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me!“.
First they took away everyone’s firearms leaving them with little means of defending themselves from thugs.  The result has been the highest violent [...]