I saw these photographs of the protests against the enactment of the “Big Soda Size” ban in New York City.  I don’t like the ban, though sympathize with its goals.  But the photograph — people holding hugemongous sodas, I suppose to make their point — Proud Drinkers of Huge Soda Sizes the whole mass of protesters — and it all makes me almost say “To Hell with it” … Bring on the Nanny State!

It is not even the old Dennis Miller routine.  “Do I really need 32 ounces of any fluid? This must be for the guy who walked off the surface of the sun directly into the 7-11. ‘Yeah I’m a little parched, Habib, what do you have in a depth charge-sized drink back there?’ Now they’ve come up with a Super Big Gulp. I can only imagine they must back a tanker truck up to your hope, jam a hose down your throat and start irrigating you like some Tennessee Vally project or something.”  At a certain point it becomes problematic from a serving stand-point.  Like, you’ll need to get it into a refrigerator, and the ice will make half of it unusable.

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