Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month For January 2010 (Get Angry, Snoop Dogg!)

Past Reason.tv Nannies of The Month have included New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (anti-salt, smoking, trans fat, you name it), a New York state senator who wanted to ban fish pedicures, and a Phoenix pol who banned churches from feeding the hungry on their own property.

So who is the first Nanny of The Month of this brand-new, sparking decade? Well, it's NOT Brownsville, Texas, for banning plastic shopping bags. And it's NOT Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) for terminating trans fat in the Golden State.

But it IS a town council somewhere in California that banned something natural and pure. And it does involved the great rapper Snoop Dogg (though not in the way you might think).

Click through to find out.

Written and produced by Ted Balaker. Associate producers were Paul Detrick and Alex Manning and the animation is by Meredith Bragg.

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[TRUTH1975DE]

@coffeebuzzz:

You miss the point and you're wrong on soo many levels. In a free society, a free marketplace will regulate itself. If you don't like transfats - don't eat them. If you do eat them, then man up and blame yourself - not some company. If you do not care about yourself enough not to eat unhealthy food, why should we legislate it?

[nonantianarchist]

"why would you need a permite for karrioki at your bar? It's your fucking bar."

*sarcasm on* Oh, how hopelessly bourgeois of you. Don't think of it as the proprietor's bar. Don't you know, it is the people's bar, and the people hate karaoke.

*sarcasm off*

I hear ya, man.

[tripfunkmonster]

@TRUTH1975DE You're right that we shouldn't overlegislate but way wrong on the marketplace comment. NO, the marketplace will not regulate itself. That's the type of twisted propaganda that destroyed our economy. When will you people stop regurgitating that stupid piece of soundbite bile? Look around. No, the marketplace can't regulate itself. Greedy sociopaths will take, take & take more. Then, they'll take more. We are indoctrinated into the state religion of Capitalism - greed & selfishness.

[AnarchisThinker]

@SuperGuitarman69 Yeah, it would. ^^ I'd love it to see all the politicians supported by the laws pushing the need to cancel laws to other laws for other politicians who are supported by those other laws. :P

[SuperGuitarman69]

@AnarchisThinker True, but wouldn't it be nice to see them arguing over which laws to repeal for a change? That would force them to carefully consider all new laws

[AnarchisThinker]

@SuperGuitarman69 You might not really be decreasing them either, since politicians get into office for power almost all the time, not to help people.

[SuperGuitarman69]

We need an amendment in the constitution. That amendment should be for every new law that any official makes? 10 laws must be repealed. You do that? They won't be writing any new laws.

[nicmart]

On her Facebook page, the mayor pro tem of the Diamond Bar city council, Ling-Ling Chang includes this as one of her favorite quotes: "Well-behaved women rarely make history."

[democratsdid9ll]

i will freebase crunch berries and there's nothing they can do to stop me

[ObamaIsDaAntiChrist]

There's always a true government. There's always some group at the top controlling shit.

[FFarmerCharlie]

@Frances3654 Somalia is under control mainly by the Muslims, theres no true government, but is Sharia law any better?

[beneehall]

Banning trans fats is a proper, public health move. Not different at all from banning mercury compounds from pickles that made them look and stay green longer.

Trans fats have been shown to be a major factor in artery disease. Since trans fats were invented, coronary diseases have grown steadily to epidemic proportions.

I agree with the concept that nannyism interferes with our freedoms but the trans fat issue is not one of them.