The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in the hallways of some California high schools, where school cafeteria bans on junk food have created a black market for cookies and chips. Jennifer Obakhume, a senior at Inglewood High School in Los Angeles, reported on the trend for NPR’s Morning Edition yesterday.

So much for Governor Schwarzenegger’s vow to “terminate obesity in California once and for all.” Will the movie star martinet wage war against pubescent potato chip peddlers? Speaking of wars, how’s Arnold’s own battle of the bulge going, anyway?

Meanwhile, the junk food ban has sparked a debate about the so-called Nanny State. Why do nannies get a bad rap, anyway? Mary Poppins was pretty popular. But then, she knew the value of sugar coating things to make them more palatable.