Heard a news report today that McDonald's has officially made the transition to no trans-fats and it got me thinking (as yah do): why does our government feel the necessity to dictate the minutae of our everyday lives?I assume since it's not a national ban on trans-fats yet, that McDonalds took it upon themselves to do this, but at the same time one would argue that this is because it was inevitable. Several States have already made this a State Mandated Ban (Illinois, California, and soon Massachusetts: that I am aware of). I mean it's natural selection, isn't it? I mean I know things like smoking are bad for me, and eating too many fried-foods is bad for me, and really if I'm that determined to kill myself slowly, why do you feel like it's your right to stop me? I don't smoke, and yeah I know second hand smoke is bad (I personally know woman who got cancer just because she tended bar, but never smoked a cigarette in her life) so maybe I guess I can kind of get that one, but who am I hurting aside from myself if I ingest a big-ass bucket O lard? If anything I think what it does instead is give us the illusion that greasy fried foods are now somehow "safer" simply because the government has put a ban on certain types.. and this in in fact very far from the truth. I believe it encourages the uneducated to now make an excuse for themselves, which will then inevitably lead to like ten years from know, a lot of lawsuits because "the government told me it was good for me! *whine*". That's my rant for today (OK like one of them, have you ever read the book "How to Be Good" by Nick Hornby? The husband in the story was an editorial columnist who called himself "The Angriest Man in Holloway". Maybe this is what I should aspire to, since lately I seem to have a lot of anger issues, LOL!)