Okay, so soon it will be a lot easier to qualify for weight-loss surgery in the United States. An advisory panel to the federal Food and Drug Administration, that embodiment of public good and nutritional betterment under whose oversight in the past thirty years the sheer size of the per capita per capita has ballooned to such crisis proportions that no less than Michelle Obama has chosen childhood obesity as her chief First Lady cause to address, into the teeth of opposition from Sarah Palin (Ah ha! A Palin notice; my blog hits are sure to go off the grid!) and assorted tea partiers accusing plans to sweep Coke and Pepsi machines from school cafeterias as unAmerican, but no matter, the FDA weighs in with a vote this month that
