by Patrick McDonald, The reasonAugust 9, 2024.
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In March 2021, the elementary school student, referred to in legal documents as “BB,” drew a painting depicting several people of different races, representing “three students and him holding hands,” the family’s complaint said. Above the painting, BB wrote “Black Lives Mater” [sic] with the words “any life” written below the slogan.
BB then gave the painting to one of his black classmates in an attempt (as he later testified) to console the classmate.
Words any health Yes, they are similar to the phrase, “All Lives Matter,” which became a controversial response to the Black Lives Matter movement after the killing of George Floyd in 2020.
That’s like—whether the first grader knew it or not—it was about to land BB in hot water. The same day he made the drawing, BB was told by the school’s principal, Jesus Becerra, that his drawing was “inappropriate” and, allegedly, “racist.” (The parties dispute whether Becerra told BB that the painting was “racist.” Defense counsel says BB’s testimony on the matter is inconsistent.)
DRH Comment: Imagine the emotional scars on this elementary school student who was punished for doing something good. Also, notice that the first grader thought more clearly about people than Jesus Becerra, the principal.
Moral of the story: keep your children out of public schools if financially possible. Many of them are poisonous.
by Timothy Taylor, Conversable EconomistAugust 9, 2024.
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One of my personal frustrations with the way law is often discussed comes from the focus on the money spent, which is easy to measure, and the focus on what is received for that money spent, which is difficult to measure. But the intention (level of spending) is not the result (actual results). Measurements in this paper
by JD Tuccille, The reasonAugust 9, 2024.
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“The CrowdStrike bug was very damaging because its security software, called Falcon, runs at the very middle level of Windows, the kernel, so when the Falcon update caused it to crash, it also took out the brains of the operating system,” The Wall Street JournalTom Dotan and Robert McMillan reported on July 21. “A Microsoft spokesperson said it will not legally shut down its operating system in the same way Apple did because of an agreement it reached with the European Commission following a complaint. In 2009, Microsoft agreed to give security software makers the same level of access to Windows that Microsoft gets.”
“Mr. Bean” on free speech in the UK.
Don’t miss this one: it’s a compassionate case against Britain’s strict restrictions on speech.
HT2 Dan Klein.
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