Nick Gillespie on NBC Nightly News tonight, 6:30 p.m.

Reason.com Editor In Chief Nick Gillespie will appear tonight on NBC's Nightly News. 

Topic: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is obsessed with cup size. 

The Big Apple chief executive is moving to ban large-sized sodas in the city so nice they ticket you twice for sitting on a milk crate. 

The proposal is finding favor only with the soda-is-murder voting bloc.

Even the liberal Daily Beast says the ban is a thirsty-two ouncer too far. Columnist Trevor Butterworth calls the mayor a "walking advertisement for libertarianism." 

But even Mrs. Butterworth can't escape the dead hand of trendy, feel-good micromanagement. 

And Bloomberg always gets what he wants. 

Can a town without a 1.2-liter Super Big Gulp truly be called great?  

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Wear a suit and tie, for pity's sake! And make sure they don't alter your 911 recording.

[Brandon]

You would have him cover up the Jacket? Blasphemy!

[Fist of Etiquette]

HE WORE A BLAZER! Albeit, a black one.

[NoVAHockey]

Don't read that gawker story. Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

[Ska]

Holy fuck you're not kidding.

[Hell's Librarian]

Sadly your warning was too late for me. That was a whole lot of WTF.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Dear god.

[Archduke PantsFan]

Sweet fancy moses, those people have no clue.

[Chloe]

The stupid is strong with them.

[SKR]

[Mike M.]

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is obsessed with cup size.

I see what you did there.

And congrats Nick on making the "big time". I think I'll have to watch NBC Nightly News tonight, no matter how disgusted the mere thought makes me.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

I'll be watching. Nick, don't forget to pimp Declaration of Independents.

[Chloe]

Shot glasses and vodka ready.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Excellent idea. But bourbon instead.

[ant1sthenes]

My theory is that Dr. Cocteau escaped from Demolition Man, sort of like the plot to Last Action Hero, and established himself in New York. On the plus side, maybe we can find out how the damn shells work.

[CockGobbla]

That was painful. Shorter NBC Nightly News: "Fuck you, the 'public health officials' have the final say."

[gaijin]

Agreed. Nice job NG. Too little time for reasonable perspectives. And f the statist 'expert' doctor who got all the time across from Matt Lauer at the end...health is not the number one issue bitch...happiness is.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"One civil libertarian." That's going to be the title of Gillespie's biopic. I'm thinking shades of Death Wish somehow.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Lauer: You say brave, but I was interested to hear some of the comments from people on the street and they're not so sure about this-

Talking Head: They were also all thin.

YEAH NO SHIT. We're not all fatties. That's part of the rub.

[Mike M.]

Well I guess I watched the wrong thing because I didn't see the Jacket anywhere, just the birdbrained Matt Lauer, some street reporter, and a paternalistic big-government whore.

There's a couple of wasted minutes of my life I'll never get back.