An Experiment in Scotch

At least the city gov­ern­ment there does. First, an alder­man wanted to ban trans fats in all city restaurants. Now, Chicago has man­dated that all big box retail­ers pay “a liv­ing wage” con­sist­ing of $10 an hour and $3 an hour in ben­e­fits leav­ing aside the fact that the aver­age wage paid by Wal-Mart in …

An alder­man in Chicago wants the city to ban trans-fats in restau­rants. Ahem. Maybe if we all just sat in our reclin­ers and ate broc­coli, no one would ever get fat. Let”s pass a law. And of course, when faced with crit­i­cism (as these idiots usu­ally right­fully are), it comes down to the chil­dren: “If …

Clearly, the answer is to pro­tect us from the bad guys. Their job is to enforce order on soci­ety based on the laws cre­ated for that soci­ety. The police should never be the bad guys. But for sev­eral rea­sons, para­mil­i­tary police or SWAT team raids have been increas­ing and many times this results in wrong …