Motus Mentis

10 Comments

1. the one eyed man says

   This is shocking! No mayor has the right to impede Americans’ sacrosanct right to enjoy a Big Gulp or three.

   Moreover, those who enjoy their Mountain Dew in Costco-size portions will simply get two smaller drinks, thus doubling the amount of paper cups to be discarded.

   Posted May 31, 2012 at 10:45 am | Permalink
2. Malcolm says

   Very glad to see that you agree, Peter. This is outrageous — and outrageously stupid, too. What a haughty, arrogant SOB that man is.

   Posted May 31, 2012 at 12:36 pm | Permalink
3. JK says

   Oh I dunno, guy has yet to ban them low-rider jeans right?

   ‘Course banning them big cups of sody pop’ll likely make it hard to keep those kinda britches from falling to the wearer’s ankles. Eventually.

   Posted May 31, 2012 at 3:28 pm | Permalink
4. the one eyed man says

   First the jihad at the Park Slope food coop, and now this. New York used to be a haven for the louche and dissolute, where you could get stinking drunk at McAnn’s and still get change from a $10 bill. Now it looks like it will be a misdemeanor to drink from a two liter Coke. You should go to City Hall and make a demand: take me two your liter.

   Posted May 31, 2012 at 7:50 pm | Permalink
5. JK says

   ☺

   Posted May 31, 2012 at 10:12 pm | Permalink
6. Churchgoer says

   It could be argued (not by me, though – no interest in getting beaten up) that soda pop is linked to obesity, that Americans are among the fattest people on earth, that these big gulp drinks are popular with people of low income who must depend on the state to take care of them when obesity causes the problems it does, and that the people who sell big gulp drinks coudn’t care less. Such statistics may be on the mind of our arrogant, haughty SOB mayor.

   Or not.

   Posted June 1, 2012 at 11:59 am | Permalink
7. Malcolm says

   Such statistics may be on the mind of our arrogant, haughty SOB mayor.

   Oh yes, Churchgoer, I had assumed that they are. Or at least I certainly hope so, as otherwise this misbegotten plan would not only be infantilizing, insulting, arrogant, intrusive, paternalistic, incoherent, capricious, tyrannical, etc., but would also be completely irrational as well.

   Your comment illustrates the essential point that the more we all depend on the State, the more the State can (and will) rationally justify expanding its authority to control every aspect of our lives.

   Posted June 1, 2012 at 12:25 pm | Permalink
8. Malcolm says

   JK, what was that comment? One of these?

   Posted June 1, 2012 at 12:30 pm | Permalink
9. Malcolm says

   Gosh, he’s even lost Jon Stewart on this one.

   Posted June 1, 2012 at 1:00 pm | Permalink
10. JK says

    Yeah something like that. Nifty using the DNA linky stuff to explain my smiley attempt cause it would appear the Mayor’s has mutated.

    I’d use it again but seeing Jon Stewart agreeing with Tucker Carlson I figure suffices.

    Posted June 1, 2012 at 2:33 pm | Permalink