Glenn Beck and Jonah Goldberg continue to share the highlights of the week of magical thinking with me in Glenn's daily email dose of density. And, oh, that this synergy would never end! Today, Glenn features Jonah's nimrod ruminations on the Coming of the Nanny State. Everywhere you look, people are attempting to the most evil and fascist bans and the Googles are capturing it all:

Type "New York City Council" and "ban" and "2007" into Google. Here's some of what you find:

A New York Times story: New York City Council Approves Ban on Metal Bats

A BBC News story: "Racial slur banned in New York."

A CNN story on how New York is considering banning "ultrathin" models.

A New York Sun article on how New York City is contemplating banning feeding pigeons.

A link to the Humane Society's effort to ban horse drawn carriages.

And that's on the first page alone.

Get it? Homespun American traditions like anorexic fashionplates and people who feed lice-ridden flying skank-birds are falling, one-by-one. First, they came for the racial slurs, and I did not speak out because I was not a racial slur! Already, we're worse than a thousand Hitlers! If only people who didn't like these bans could cast some sort of "vote" for "candidates" who would pass different "legislation."

Really, the problem with Goldberg - and Beck, who thought the entire world needed to come to a complete halt when he didn't get enough "compassion" during his "butt surgery," as well - is that they've got no sense of priority. Check out Goldberg's summation:

On countless fronts, the natural pastures of daily liberty are being paved over by bureaucrats, politicians and other do-gooders. They aren't merely fixing problems as they come up. They are laying-down a path to a world where people like them are in charge of our lives, in large ways and small. And when you realize it, the funny stories we so often hear, aren't so funny anymore.

See, I completely agree with him! But when I think about the "natural pastures of daily liberty" that are being put to the asphalt mixer, my mind tends to drift to things like: my phone being wiretapped for no good reason, a President who won't respect my elected representative and dissects legislation with bogus signing statements, and the fact that our answer to making the skies safe for air travellers amounts to nothing more than a government program that can arbitrarily force citizens to remove their shoes. And that's on the first page alone. If we can successfuly beat back the misguided authoritarianism that spawned these limitations on my freedom, then I promise Jonah Goldberg that I will join him on the barricades to take back our metal bats.