Los Angeles puts moratorium on more fast food places

The Los Angeles City Council has voted to keep any new fast food joints from opening in the poor sections of town in an effort to fight obesity.

There's no question fast food is bad for you, but consider a couple things: (1) an awful lot of "wealthy" people drive their expensive SUVs to McDonalds too; (2)if you really want to fight obesity, why not aggressively fund school and extra-curricular physical education and nutrition programs, and take vending machines out of schools, and make cities more conducive to bikers and walkers. Outright bans don't often work very well. Didn't we learn anything from Prohibition?

What's next? Bootleg Big Macs?

Maybe they just really don't like that bridge

Officials in San Francisco are poised to spend $50 million to construct a steel net twenty feet below the Golden Gate Bridge pedestrian walkways in an effort to catch jumpers. Since opening in 1937, the Golden Gate has become the number one suicide spot in the world, with some 1,300 known suicides.

Why do people hate this bridge so much? Wouldn't a coat of paint or some pleasant music be cheaper?

Stunning, and yet not surprising

In the last week, we've seen people falling over themselves to comment on the front page news that the Supreme Court struck down a D.C. handgun ban. Gun advocates rabidly fight to protect what they perceive as the "right" to keep and brandish what is, by design, a deadly weaon. And yet, this same week, an appalling story about how a woman sat in a New York emergency room for TWENTY-FOUR HOURS and then died was stuck in the back of the newspaper. The woman went through convulsions, collapsed and died all while other patients, security personnel and MEDICAL STAFF watched without lifting a finger. It's all on video tape.

Why don't we all put down our guns for a minute and consider the state of our right not to be killed from incompetence and apathy exhibited by our health care system?

We'll all live longer.