Comments on: Bloomberg’s Soda Grab and the Separation of Powers

By: No, it wasn’t “activist” to strike down Bloomberg’s soda ban - Overlawyered

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:00:05 +0000

[…] at Cato to a remarkably lame piece by Slate’s Emily Bazelon. Earlier on the case here and here. […]

By: Judge strikes down Bloomberg soda ban, cont’d - Overlawyered

Judge strikes down Bloomberg soda ban, cont’d - Overlawyered — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:30:13 +0000

[…] here. NYU’s Rick Hills, as often happens, takes a different view. (& Point of Law; and more) Update: as of March 15 my Daily Caller piece has been recommended on Facebook 3,700 times, surely […]

By: rxc

rxc — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:00:41 +0000

The problem with the “public health” people is that once they succeeded in eliminating the most significant real public health threats, they didn’t have much to do. Sewers and public water systems, innoculations against communicable diseases, and the development of systems to identify and track down new outbreaks of disease so that they can be treated are the main success stories, and they should be applauded. However, now there is an army of people who don’t have much to do, because the real threats are well under control, so they have to find new threats. Throw in the progressive desire to “do good” and “save the people/planet/bunnies/worms/society/universe” , and a few scientifically illiterate and mathematically challenged activists, and everything becomes a health issue.

Mission creep…