While every nanny worked tirelessly this year to restrict our choices, a few have shown outstanding initiative, creativity and determination in their efforts to protect us from ourselves. For refusing to consider a bill which would have lifted the state's ban on smoking in bars and taverns.
Restaurants are notorious for serving too much food.
Their admission one week later that they overstated that figure by 100 percent barely caused a ripple. Despite being refuted by the Congressional Research Service, contradicted by the World Health Organization and invalidated by a U.S. District Court as sloppy and biased research, this 1993 study is thriving in the current Nanny State. The grand-Nanny of them all was edged out by Brownell, despite leading the charge against soda, coffee, alcohol, the Thanksgiving turkey, Olestra and the entire U.S. restaurant industry. The Guest Choice Network is a nationwide coalition of food service and beverage companies committed to providing a full menu of entertainment and dining choices. Click here to post a public comment on the Trash Talk Bulletin Board.