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Adjudicate the legal angle here, the moral angle, but it is kind of strange that you can go to 7-eleven, a big corporation, and buy a 28,000-ounce drink, and then you can't go next door to the same bodega and buy the same thing, because 7-lefb has larger power and has lobbied for the same thing in the past. so in that sense, jeff is right, there's a tangle of weird regulations and loopholes. but it is a weird, slipperly slope. mayor bloomberg has also talked about banning large-sized popcorn in movie theaters. he's talked about salts, you know, regulating how much salts restaurants use in cert...

Make it kind of across the board? and not have there been exemptions or loopholes? >> no, he would just say that this law is reasonable. look, he banned trans fats in restaurants, but he didn't ban trans fats at home. he banned smoking in bars and restaurants, but he didn't ban smoking at home or on the sidewalks. there are always exceptions. there are always loopholes in law, but that doesn't mean that a judge can throw out the whole thing. this is one step that will limit obesity and diabetes, which are enormous problems in this city, and i don't see why the judge took it upon himself to act...

He was the legislature and decide he wouldn't have agreed to this law. that's not what judges are supposed to do. >> michael, how do you see it? i know you said this is basically a slippery slope, this ban. >> well, it is. and i would say that banning cigarettes in a bar, for instance, where they can adversely affect other people, versus banning them in somebody's home, is telling people what they can do in their own home is slightly different. in this case, as the judge pointed out, i'll let jeff adjudicate the moral angle, but it is kind of strange that you can go to 7-eleven, a big corporat...

People what they can do in their own home is slightly different. in this case, as the judge pointed out, i'll let jeff adjudicate the moral angle, but it is kind of strange that you can go to 7-eleven, a big corporation, and buy a 28,000-ounce drink, and then you can't go next door to the same bodega and buy the same thing, because 7-eleven has larger power and has lobbied for the same thing in the past. so in that sense, jeff is right, there's a tangle of weird regulations and loopholes. but it is a weird, slipperly slope. mayor bloomberg has also talked about banning large-sized popcorn in m...