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Updated (10/7). Check out this investigative report about the misuse of police dogs. Maybe the “woke” critique of Paw Patrol is spot on (pun intended), after all, or maybe not! See Dylan Shelter’s excellent reply in the comment section. Hat tip: The Amazing Tyler Cowen, via Marginal Revolution.

From a recent deposition of Mr Musk:

I nominate the small square sign pictured below, which is located on Riverside Drive in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

Either former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie or President Trump’s SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barret (or both!) might be a coronavirus “superspreader” and Zeynep Tufecki’s report in The Atlantic: This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic. Hat tip: Salvador Antonetti.

Source: Remember Singapore (10/1)

Built in the 19th century, Jurong Road was the oldest road in the western part of Singapore. According to the Monthly Progress Report by the …

Coming to the End of Jurong Road

Class #6 of my Advanced Topics in Law class will be devoted to the battle of ideas over corporate social responsibility (CSR). To make this intellectual battle as memorable as possible, I have enlisted the late great conservative economist Milton Friedman and the feisty-liberal-law-professor-cum-senator Liz Warren to personify two different approaches to CSR: “greed is good” and “share the wealth.” Also, for your reference, two years ago I wrote up a detailed, 13-part paragraph-by-paragraph review of Milton Friedman’s classic essay “The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.” Links to my extended review of Friedman’s ideas are below:

1. Review of Milton Friedman (part 1)
2. Friedman on business ethics (part 2)
3. Friedman’s critique of CSR (part 3)
4. Review of Friedman (part 4): corporate managers vs. sole proprietors
5. Review of Friedman (part 5): interlude
6. Review of Friedman (part 6): theory choice
7. Milton Friedman’s fallacy? (part 7)
8. Friedman and the art of sophistry (part 8)
9. Review of Friedman (part 9): ethics and epistemology
10. Review of Friedman (part 10): markets versus politics
11. Review of Friedman (part 11): do motives matter?
12. Review of Friedman (penultimate post): politics versus markets redux
13. Review of Friedman (last post)

Yes, why not? Stupid bastards!!! Check out Matthew Walther’s review of last night’s presidential debate. I missed the debate (#YankeesIndians), but according to Mr Walther, one of the candidates even said, “Stupid bastard.” (Which one!?) Here is just one excerpt from Walther’s excellent essay: “It was like witnessing an argument about an arcane procedural rule during a senior bingo night at a nursing home in purgatory.” Updated (10/1) with Remy’s excellent rap version of the first “presidential” debate.

In honor of Oktoberfest, which actually begins in September(!), check out this cool color-coded map of Germany’s most popular beers by region. (Hat tip: u/tifa365, via Reddit.)