Score one for big brother as the New York City board of health banned the use of trans fat in restaurants. The NYC health commissioner once referred to trans fats (margarine and shortening to us lay people), as “hazardous materials” that had no business in our food supply:

"We know trans fats increase the chance for heart attack, stroke and death, and they don't have to be there," Frieden said. The new rules are "going to make New Yorkers live longer and healthier lives."

Trans fats such as margarine were once thought to be healthier than butter, an animal fat, because the former contained no cholesterol. In fact the Mayo Clinic still says that’s usually the case. No word from New York about banning butter – yet.

Liberals will be the first to protest government intrusion in the bedroom but they have no problem with it in the kitchen.