My weekly reading and viewing moments for August 11, 2024, part 2

by Patrick McDonald, RodeAugust 9, 2024.

Extract:

In March 2021, the elementary school student, referred to in legal filings as “BB,” created a sketch depicting several individuals of different races, representing “three classmates and herself holding hands,” the family’s complaint alleges. states. Above the drawing, BB wrote “Black Lives Mater” [sic] with the words “every life” transcribed below the slogan.

BB then gave the drawing to one of her classmates, who is black, in an attempt (as she later testified) to comfort her classmate.

The words any life are of course similar to the phrase ‘All Lives Matter’, which is a controversial answer to the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

That similarity – whether the first-grader was aware of it or not – would quickly land BB in hot water. On the same day she made the drawing, BB was told by the school’s principal, Jesus Becerra, that her drawing was “inappropriate” and allegedly “racist.” (The parties dispute whether Becerra told BB the drawing was “racist.” The defense claims BB’s testimony on this subject is inconsistent.)

DRH comment: Consider the emotional scars on this elementary school student who was punished for doing something kind. Also note that the first-grader thought more clearly about people than Jesus Becerra, the director.

Moral of the story: Keep your children out of government schools if financially feasible. Many of them are poisonous.

by Timothy Taylor, Conversable economistAugust 9, 2024.

Extract:

One of my personal frustrations with the way legislation is often discussed occurs when there is a strong focus on the total amount spent, which is easy to measure, and much less focus on what is received for what is spent, which is more difficult can be measured. But the intention (spending level) is not the result (actual results). The estimates in this document

by JD Tuccille, RodeAugust 9, 2024.

Extract:

“The CrowdStrike bug was so devastating because the security software, called Falcon, runs at the most central level of Windows, the kernel. When an update to Falcon caused it to crash, it also shut down the operating system’s brains.” The Wall Street Journal‘s Tom Dotan and Robert McMillan reported July 21. “A Microsoft spokesperson said it cannot legally shut down its operating system in the same way Apple does, due to 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 as Microsoft.

“Sir. Bean” on freedom of speech in Britain.

Don’t miss this one: it’s a passionate case against Britain’s strict restrictions on freedom.

HT2 Dan Klein.