Saturday five, 4/5/14.

My content from ESPN.com this week:

And the links … by the way, feel free to post or otherwise send (Twitter, FB, etc) links you think might be candidates for this section in a future week. I’m always looking for good reading material.

* From the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal), a study on how certain anti-anxiety drugs, including benzodiazepines, increase the risk of patient death, uncovered when researchers examined those patients over long periods.

* Cornmeal waffles with bourbon-banana syrup. Haven’t tried these yet, but, I mean, waffles and bananas and booze? I’m in.

* From the LA Times, Michael Hiltzik on why Brendan Eich’s ouster from Mozilla was justified – or, at least, why his First Amendment rights are irrelevant to this discussion.

* “Libertarian” is probably the best one-word description of my political beliefs, but the satirical piece Libertarian Police Department hits the mark square-on.

* And one you may already have seen, but if not, and you have the stomach for it, read Sports on Earth’s profile of Chad Curtis, convicted sexual predator. Is he a sociopath? A narcissist? I found his victim-blaming, right on through his attempts to manipulate the jury and then the writer here, terrifying.

I’ll be at Wilmington’s home opener on Tuesday, and probably the 10:30 am game (full of screaming kids) on Wednesday as well, so I hope to see many of you there.

Comments

  1. The New Yorker piece reminds me of a headline/article in The Onion “Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department”.

    http://www.theonion.com/articles/libertarian-reluctantly-calls-fire-department,4651/

  2. Nigel from Cameroon

    I won’t read the Curtis piece (my lack of stomach)…my biggest impression of him was when he and Royce Clayton got in a fight over rap music being played in the locker room. I hoped then and now that Clayton kicked his ass.