Written by: Beck

The dictate-how-you-live crowd has latched onto obesity lately. Obesity--now defined as a disease by the CDC--is gradually taking the place of Smoking as the great bogeyman of bureaucrat busy-bodies. That's why the final paragraph of an otherwise interesting article in USA Today sent a chill of fear down my spine.

"Just telling people to sit less is going to lead to nowhere," he says. "We have to redesign our environment so it's not as conducive to sitting."

How long can it be until some jackass legislator tries to enact a law outlawing comfortable chairs in the workplace? You think I'm kidding, but tell me, ten years ago would you have imagined that people would be filing class action lawsuits against fast food companies for making them fat?