Newark Star-Ledger editorial:
There’s a big difference between a normal kid who teases a fellow fourth-grader and a bona fide bully who does real harm.
But you wouldn’t know it from our state’s anti-bullying law. In the burst of indignation after Tyler Clementi’s suicide three years ago, we were determined to do something about bullying.
And we drafted a sloppy statute…. it’s ensnaring way too many kids.
[h/t Neal McCluskey]
“A disabled man was awarded $8,000 by Disneyland after the It’s A Small World ride broke, stranding him for 30 minutes while the theme song played on a loop.” [Georgia Daily News]
P.S. “What’s the award if I can’t stop humming the song?” [@ClayNickel]
“I had to [explain she] could not find a second-hand crib because the CPSC basically outlawed” them [CPSC commissioner Nancy Nord, earlier here, here]
It’s not embeddable, but here’s a link to a video (may not work in all browsers) of today’s panel on the Marriage Cases at Cato, with Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry, former Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman, and Cato’s Ilya Shapiro, with me as moderator.
P.S. Okay, now we’ve got a proper video up:
Alternative video at Cato site (parts one, two). Coverage: Luca Gattoni-Celli, American Spectator; Lou Chibbaro Jr., Washington Blade; Kevin Glass, TownHall.com; Adam Polaski, Freedom to Marry.
A Bowdoin professor named Sarah Conly has written a book called Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism, and recently took to the pages of the New York Times to argue (which sounds consistent with the book’s thesis) in favor of the Bloomberg soda ban and other interventions. Cato’s Trevor Burrus takes exception and perhaps indicating how extreme Conly’s positions are, even Cass Sunstein declines to get on board.
I’ve got a flash reaction op-ed up at the New York Daily News site.
P.S. @gideonstrumpet: “I was indeed joking.“
Extraordinary emails bolster a client’s case that mega-law firm DLA Piper wasn’t holding its legal billings to a needed minimum. [New York Times “DealBook”]
I’m set to be a commentator this afternoon on the Fox radio network, discussing the Supreme Court’s marriage cases. Speaking of which, I’ve got a new roundup at Cato at Liberty summarizing recent writings on Perry and Windsor by Cato stars including Roger Pilon, Ilya Shapiro, and Richard Epstein.