The scientific argument is silly, imo, and the law is questionable, but it is of no importance. There is no issue of freedom. Not only can anyone buy soda, they can by as much as they want. If you want 32 oz. you can get 2 16 oz. drinks.
Meanwhile, Clarence Aaron got three life sentences for witnessing a drug deal. Now THAT is an issue of freedom, the big government comingin with guns and siezing someone and locking them up for the rest of their lives. And yet Dennis Prager will never utter the name Clarence Aaron, nor question the drug war.
The quotation of the week last week had to be that of Harvard professor Daniel E. Lieberman in an opinion piece for the New York Times.
Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology, was among those who publicly defended New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to ban the sale of sugared soft drinks in cups larger than 16 ounces.
And he did so using, of all things, evolution.
Now, we all know that humans have always needed -- or evolved to need -- carbohydrates for energy. So how could evolution argue for Mayor Bloomberg's ban...
Hubris combined with some pop-science.