NEW PURITANISM UPDATE: Mayor who waged war on salt, sodas succeeded by mayor who tells citizens where they shouldn’t eat. “Champion of the common man de Blasio isn’t hesitating from telling the citizens where not to eat, but not for health reasons. Rather, de Blasio told New York magazine that he would not be patronizing the first Chick-fil-A franchises to open within city limits, and he urged citizens to follow his lead.”

In 2008, when the L.A. city council proposed banning smoking outdoors, raconteur, bon vivant and then-PJ Media contributor Rich Miniter wrote, “In the 1950s, the most puritanical place in America was somewhere in Kansas. Today it is Los Angeles.”

But in the years since, close-minded prudishness has certainly spread to plenty other blue state alcoves. Or as Iowahawk tweets, “It’s getting hard to tell who the fundamentalist Puritan preachers are anymore.”