RADLEY BALKO is Fisking David Frum over a nannyish plan to tax fattening food. I’m with Balko, here: “What’s most troubling about Frum’s position is not only that he assumes a top-down government tax remedy to a perceived social problem will work, but that it’s okay in principle. Desirable even.”

UPDATE: Dollars to, er, donuts that if a plan like Frum’s went through it would tax HoHos and Big Macs but not stuff like this.