watching a debate unfold over whether a school-sanctioned water balloon inside a moving school bus is a fun way celebrate the end of school or maybe a sign that we as a society have lost all sight of the fact that driving a multi-ton metal box is difficult and errors in so doing impose enormous external costs even without the risk of getting beaned in the head by a 5th grader with a water balloon
to be clear I am on the unpopular side of said debate