the Happy Meal of DOOOOOOM!!!!

Yes, that's right. The Happy Meal of DOOOOOOM. Or at least, that's what they're saying in Santa Clara County, California. Since apparently we're to moronic as a society to be able to be able to figure things out on our own, SC Co is, according to the LA Times, considering banning toys. Well, just the toys in your kid's Mickey D's meal. Well, not all of them. Just the ones that have more than 485 calories, or 600 mg of sodium or "high amounts of sugar or fat". Which, is, let's face it folks, all of 'em.

But why?

Well, because a ban (in one small county of just a million and a half people) there in old San Jose will force restaurants to offer healthier meals! And, according to the dude who thought this up, toys in their fast-food meals make kids fat!

What?

Toys encourage kids to pester their mom to buy them a happy meal on their way home from soccer practice because of a little plastic thing that will fall apart in five minutes, and because of that shoddily made plastic gremlin, they'll get an unhealthy meal, and then they'll be fat. Or obese. Or chubby. Or whatever the "nice" word is these days to refer to being rotund.

Apparently, being a crappy parent isn't in the cards here. Apparently, because you're too busy getting a manicure, or watching Sex & the City, or  doing yoga, or whatever it is that parents do in San Jose, and you take no responsibility for making sure your children are well taken care of, physically, mentally, emotionally, etc ... you need to ban the McDonald's and Burger King's of SC County from putting in a 25 cent toy in your kids meal?

Wow.

I'll be over here, in the corner, crying, after beating myself into a coma with my desk.

the LA Times article: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-happy-meals-20100427,0,4578399,full.story

And thanks to the Corner at the National Review for notifying me about this outrageous and indecent usurpation of your own rights, liberties, and responsibilities.