Drew Carey and Reason TV highlight Los Angeles’s war on sidewalk vendors who sell bacon dogs. One vendor who violated the ordinance was sent to jail for 45 days. Drew does a number on the bureaucrats who enforce this silliness here.

I don’t know if they sell them in Raleigh, but I bought one at a 7/11 in Norway and they are great! The only problem with the Norwegian version is that they cost $8.00. The weak dollar meant that our dining experience in Norway was limited to 7/11s and gas station fast food.

Below is one of my favorite photos of the free market at work. There was a time when our grandparents (or great grandparents) could enter the market with little or no capital and work their way up the economic ladder by satisfying the needs of others. Now city governments do their best to prevent this economic miracle.