Tag Archives: nanny state

Dallas Finds New Ways To Screw Small Business Owners

The back­story: In March of last year, the City of Dal­las passed an ordi­nance allow­ing cabs that are pow­ered by nat­ural gas to jump the line at Love Field. The city coun­cil voted unan­i­mously for this change, a change that clearly posi­tions the gov­ern­ment in a place to make mar­ket deci­sions. Cur­rent: Inde­pen­dent cab dri­vers …

February 3, 2011 – 2:17 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Dallas Affairs | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Does Our Whininess Have No End?

Whole Foods is imple­ment­ing a plan to give a big­ger employee dis­count to employ­ees that don’t smoke, have lower blood pres­sure and have a BMI under 30. Nat­u­rally, peo­ple are whin­ing about dis­crim­i­na­tion. This includes one quote that I can’t pos­si­bly do jus­tice to other than to repro­duce it in full: “Why are you reward­ing peo­ple …

February 7, 2010 – 3:21 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

We Really Are In The Best Of Hands

The mayor of New York and that city’s health com­mis­sioner have decided to pres­sure city restau­rants to lower the amount of salt in food they serve by half over the next decade even though the sci­ence behind the deci­sion is ambigu­ous and uncer­tain. On top of that, low­er­ing salt in your diet may lead to …

April 7, 2009 – 8:13 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (2)

Doing Something Productive

I just sent the fol­low­ing to my Rep­re­sen­ta­tive in the US House in response to HR 875 – the Food Safety and Mod­ern­iza­tion Act of 2009 which I wrote about here. I lifted a large por­tion of the let­ter with per­mis­sion from TennZen and tai­lored the mes­sage some­what to Con­gress­man Hall, my rep­re­sen­ta­tive. Feel free …

March 25, 2009 – 8:14 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Tagged | Comments (0)

Change We Can Believe In

A bill has been intro­duced by a Demo­c­rat whose hus­band does work for Mon­santo that would effec­tively kill farmer’s mar­kets. Under the guise of pro­tect­ing those of us who never asked for pro­tec­tion, the gov­ern­ment is try­ing to reg­u­late all food we might buy. A new gov­ern­men­tal entity would be cre­ated out of thin air …

March 18, 2009 – 7:59 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food, Politics | Tagged , | Comments (1)

The Nanny State Encroachment Continues

New Jer­sey is try­ing to ban Brazil­ian waxes because two peo­ple com­plained and 1 sued. Con­spir­acy the­o­ries abound includ­ing one that says the state is try­ing to push peo­ple to der­ma­tol­o­gists for laser treat­ment over the wax­ing. Fun times in New Jersey.

March 15, 2009 – 8:48 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (0)

Is Selling Porn Worse Than Robbing People?

The Jus­tice Depart­ment thinks so. Here, we have a police offi­cer who bribed His­pan­ics to give him money in exchange for not arrest­ing them. He gets 1 year of home arrest while a man sell­ing tapes show­ing con­sent­ing adults hav­ing sex to con­sent­ing adults gets 33 months in prison. The police have one task and …

December 15, 2008 – 10:28 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Tagged | Comments (0)