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A judge struck down New York’s limits on large sugary drinks on Monday, one day before they were to take effect, in a significant blow to one of the most ambitious and divisive initiatives of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s tenure.

In an unusually critical opinion, Justice Milton A. Tingling Jr. of State Supreme Court in Manhattan called the limits “arbitrary and capricious,” echoing the complaints of city business owners and consumers who had deemed the rules unworkable and unenforceable, with confusing loopholes and voluminous exemptions.

The decision comes at a sensitive time for Mr. Bloomberg, who is determined to burnish his legacy as he enters the final months of his career in City Hall, and his administration seemed caught off guard by the decision. Before the judge ruled, the mayor had called for the soda limits to be adopted by cities around the globe; he now faces the possibility that one of his most cherished endeavors will not come to fruition before he leaves office, if ever.

Best Gosh Darn Third Term Ever!

You can guess the next sentence:

Almost since the recession began, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has boasted that New York City’s economy weathered the downturn better than the rest of the nation and bounced back faster.

Best Goddamn Third Term Ever

In head-to-head polls, a third-party Bloomberg candidacy gets far fewer votes than Jon Huntsman but almost as many as Gary Johnson. On the bright side, he did poll better than Bernie Sanders:

I hope that members of the New York press read the latest poll that included possible Third Party Presidential candidates before they publish any more nonsense from Doug Schoen or Kevin Sheeky about Bloomberg for President.

You almost want him to run just so he might squander more of his personal fortune.

On Throwing Bombs

How scary are the terrorist plots that the vaunted NYPD counter-terrorism unit brings down? You decide:

FBI Director Robert Mueller struggled to stop subordinates from criticizing the NYPD over its case against accused would-be pipe-bomber Jose Pimentel, he admitted Wednesday.

The feds passed on the case twice, but the NYPD took down the Bronx radical as he worked to complete a pipe bomb in a police informant’s apartment on Nov. 20.

Afterward, federal officials ripped the case, telling reporters, who gave them anonymity so they could dish, that Pimentel was incapable of carrying out an attack.

Moral: Never Tie Your Legacy To School Test Scores

It will eventually bite you in the ass:

In a stunning blow to Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy on education, new national exam results show the city’s math and reading scores have flatlined since 2009.

Eighth-grade reading scores have stagnated since 2003, when the Bloomberg administration reforms first took effect.

There’s also been no significant improvement in the percentage of eighth-graders who tested “proficient” or above in math, the scores released Wednesday show.