Table for Two?

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"Table for two, sir?"

"No, just me."

"Step right here to our scales first . . ."

Airlines now charge the obese for an extra seat. Will restaurants be next?

Now Mississippi is considering beefing up their laws by banning restaurants from serving fat people.

It's a logical extension, perhaps, of laws that ban bartenders from serving patrons who are already beyond the point of legal intoxication. Pundits suggested the next logical step would be to ban credit card sales to those who are already up to their eyeballs in debt.

Hard to argue with that.

But why Mississippi?

According to the C.D.C., there was a 61% increase in the number of obese Americans between 1991 and 2000. Mississippi tips the scales as the fattest state with 30% of adults classified as obese.

And that's the news for Fat Tuesday.