Hail, Britannia!

This I like:

"An Internet campaign to ban Britain's treasury chief from the nation's pubs has struck a chord with the country's harried drinkers.

"Earlier this month, treasury chief Alistair Darling raised taxes on cars and cigarettes, but it is his new alcohol duties — which raised the price of a pint of beer — that have gotten Britons' backs up.

"So when a pub landlord in Darling's home town of Edinburgh barred the chancellor from his establishment, drinking holes across the country followed suit, posting pictures of the white-haired, bespectacled treasurer above the big red word 'barred.'"

You know, if restaurants and bars across the U.S. posted pictures of tobacco/trans-fat/fois gras-banning lawmakers, and then banned the sombitches from their premises, a good deal of property rights-eroding foolishness might never make its way into the legislative hopper. Indeed.