ANN ALTHOUSE: Marc Ambinder would like you to conceptualize obesity as social inequity. “Ambinder is making an argument. It’s an argument about the unfairness of obesity, an argument designed to justify new government policies and spending.”

Funny how every problem seems to wind up as an argument designed to justify new government policies and spending. Probably including in-the-tank journalism: More subsidies for journalistic diversity! And a tax on FoxNews!