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I’m a little late with this, but if you skipped that article by
Sarah Conly, explaining why Mayor Bloomberg’s large-soda ban is
a good idea, because you thought you already knew what the
author was going to say . . . good call! The article is exactly
what you’d expect; it has no trace of originality in it, and it
proceeds on the same lines that have been used for centuries to
keep people from making their own decisions.  But if you did
skip the article, or if you gave up before the end, you missed
its triumphant final paragraph, which even by the standards of
leftist op-eds is a masterpiece of inanity mixed with illogic.
Here it is, with interpolations:   This assertion is highly
questionable to begin with, but even if you accept it, that
doesn’t mean it’s the government’s job to make us get where it
wants us to go.   The costs are always small and the benefit is
always large in the mind of the busybody who writes the
regulation.  That’s why we hav