WARNING: Totalitarians May Be Hazardous to Your Health

The plan is modeled after the surgeon general’s warning required on cigarettes. [More]

Yeah, after all those years and all that unconstitutional interference, does anybody have a handle on how many lives have been saved because people were persuaded to change their behavior by a label?

And this is setting the stage for discrimination lawsuits because the warnings did not also come in Spanish, Arabic, Somali...

Here's a challenge for Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito.* It's something I like to ask all self-appointed "experts" who have zero experience-based knowledge:

You're in your office and you suddenly hear a series of loud bangs, possibly followed by terrified screaming and sounds of panicked people trying to escape. Then you hear more bangs, closer this time, and maybe some hysterical pleading or moans of agony. Whatever it is, it's coming your way, approaching your position. It will be upon you in a matter of several seconds.

What are you personally prepared to do about it?

[Via Bluesgal]

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* Curiously, Ms. Hyphenated-Name and those like her perfectly fit the term "apodictator," which I just coined this morning after receiving a forward of Merriam-Webster's "Word for the Day" email featuring the term "apodictic." The definition made me think of the utter certainty with which control freak collectivists mandate their prescriptions to force their "fixes" on everyone. (Confession: Actually, my first thought was that old Little Rascals joke.)