Berzerkely

       Just saw that the city of Berkeley, CA will require stores to eliminate "unhealthy" foods from grocery store checkout lines.  The subtext of course is that consumers are too stupid to stop buying all that sugary crap.  In this subtextual instance the Berzerklers are correct.  Most people are too stupid to stop buying sugary crap, and not just from store checkout lanes.  Hence the sugar addicted public will simply go elsewhere for their fix, so nothing will change.
       Ordinarily, I reflexively scorn pronunciamentos issuing from the philosophical nexus of the land of fruits and nuts.  I must scorn this one as well since it baldly abridges freedom of choice, and will have no noticeable effect, the first being more important than the second.  In addition, with the exception of the sugary carbage aforementioned, the kultural kommissars of LaLa land have very different ideas about what constitutes unhealthy food than do I.  It is but a small step for soy addled Berkeley pols to include meat and animal products in the "unhealthy" category.  This is of course pure radical leftist lunacy, but let's face it that phrase defines Berkeley.