At the end of Impromptus yesterday, I told a little story — about parents who are both hard-core libertarians and hard-core diet-watchers (for lack of a better term, just at the moment). One day, their three-year-old said to his father, “Daddy, which is worse, the government or sugar?”

I said that, in my view, both were “vital, in their places.” Our Kevin Williamson has the ultimate answer: “Worst of all are government subsidies of sugar!”