It's for your own good

New York City bravely sallies forth into the exciting new world of micromanaging everybody's diets.

NYC health board bans trans fats at restaurants (CNN)

So far, the ban appears to apply only to restaurants; people are free to cook up unhealthy stuff at home. But for how long?

I have a sudden prophetic vision of junk-food addicts furtively ducking into back alleys and abandoned houses to get their fixes. Will Lou Reed's immortal I'm Waitin' for the Man be rewritten as I'm Waitin' for my Fries?