I normally start off with Reason links, but a story broke over the weekend that I want to address first.
Trump decided to go ahead and initiate 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico. Canada has responded with their own. I can’t see this helping anyone among the three countries. But Trump is so mired in 19th century economics that he can’t or won’t see the downstream effects. This is certainly not going to help bring down the prices for consumers.
Now back to our normally scheduled Reason links.
This piece looks at the assertions that DEI and understaffing were the causes of the Washington plane crash. I’m going to wait for the NTSB report. The rapidity everyone went to their political corners and came out swinging reminds me of anytime we have a mass shooter.
California bill would allow people and insurers to sue oil companies for disasters. There are days when I think more companies should take Ronnie Barrett’s stance and tell California that if they think their product is so horrible, then it won’t be sold in their state.
More on the continuing gap in education post-pandemic.
Biden’s antitrust attack on tech reduced innovation.
Trump directs FDA to roll back menthol ban for cigarettes. Now if he can get them to roll back their bullshit bans on vapes he could do real damage to cancer.
Surprising no one who follows the issue, UK officials are blaming the spike in violent crime on access to knives. Please provide two forms of ID if you want to purchase knives in the UK – coming soon.
Also surprising no one who follows the issue, the LA Sheriffs Office improperly used a confidential database to run background checks for concealed weapons permits. Let’s see how many wrong things there are in that sentence.
The Fifth Circuit strikes down the ban on handgun sales to 18 – 20 year olds.
A thinkpiece on the grammar of the Second Amendment.
On to other articles.
I’m linking to Borepatch’s linking of an article on human mistakes vs AI mistakes.
CBS reports on a civilian jet breaking the sound barrier.
An article from Seibertron on Hasbro looking to produce less toys. It looks like they want to farm out the toy production through licenses and transition to an IP company. Call me skeptical of that particular strategy. It feels more like ossification than dynamism.
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