That Bill Maher cracks me up. In his latest Health Care Reform essay he confronts fat Americans and their unwillingness to deal with bad diet and no exercise. Says junk food should be taxed.

And since Americans can only be prodded into doing something with money, we need to tax crappy foods that make us sick like we do with cigarettes, and alcohol -- and alcohol actually serves a useful function in society in that it enables unattractive people to get laid, which is more than you can say for Skittles.

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And get this: Surgeon General Benjamin had previously been a nutritional advisor to Burger King. The only advice a "health expert" should give Burger King is to stop selling food. The "nutritional advisor" job was described as, "promoting balanced diets and active lifestyle choices" -- and who better to do that than the folks who hand you meat and corn syrup through a car window? When you have a surgeon general who comes from Burger King, it's a message to lobbyists, and that message is, "Have it your way."

Clever fellow. I read somewhere that he said he never married because "he scares women with his intelligence." Maybe true, but he never met MOM, did he?