First New York, now Cambridge, Massachusetts. The home of Harvard University, Ground Zero of America’s know-better class, is thinking about banning all soda in all restaurants, with a City Council resolution having been passed asking “that the City Manager be and hereby is requested to refer the matter of a ban on soda and sugar-sweetened beverages in restaurants to the Cambridge Public Health Department for a recommendation.”

This is, in a word, insane, and we can only hope that this is laughed out of town. The whole thing reminds me of the late, great William F Buckley’s line that he would “sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.” Or, I think he would hasten to add, Harvard’s local government.