RIP Princeton Diner

I am sad to report to ye socks that today will be the last time to patronize the venerable Princeton Diner at Edgewater and Par in College Park.

It's not for a lack of business, as any of you who frequent the place will already know.

No, this is a case of a government taking. The Orange County School Board is forcing the owners out of business so they can expand the adjacent Edgewater High School.

I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing, just a foreshadowing of things to come. As The Tragedy in Waiting threatens to usher in a new era of big government, I imagine a lot more than diners are going to be taken out of the hands of the private sector . . .