The latest depressing news on the descent of a formerly free people into a state of sheepdom comes with a Gallup survey on the matter of regulating the permissible portions of soft drinks.  Seems three out of ten Americans are okay with a law (presumably federal) that would limit the allowable serving size of a soft drink to something that is deemed acceptable by busybodies living lives of not-so-quiet desperation.  

So many things to ban.  So many freedoms to inhibit.  So earnest and humorless.  The apotheosis of Nurse Ratched.