My Insider post this week covered seven prospect-laden minor league rosters, which went up after Eric Longenhagen identified the Opening Day assignments for all 300 prospects in my thirty team top 10s. This week’s Klawchat transcript, full of “small sample size” questions, is up as well.
And now, the links…
- Orphan Black, one of the best shows on television, is back tonight with the first episode of season 3. The New Yorker has a history-cum-review of the series that points out that it’s one of the few shows on TV that provides a quality leading role for a woman.
- Security expert Bruce Schneier MLB metal detectors are a waste of time. Schneier’s been shouting into the void for years about how our reactions to real or imagined threats of terrorism are usually ineffective and sometimes harmful.
- New Republic‘s informative history of the Hot Take. ESPN comes in for a little bit of blame in there.
- A vaccine denier mom writes – from quarantine – how she realized she was an idiot when her whole family caught whooping cough.
- How should journalists cover quacks like the FoodBabe in a fair, ethical manner? I don’t see a quandary here: Present the facts, and if that paints the subject in a bad light, so be it.
- Self-styled “free range” parents arrested *again* in Maryland for leaving their kids unsupervised well away from the house. They’re invoking the same “parental rights” nonsense that vaccine deniers try to use, but you can’t put your kids at risk (and, in this case, violate the law, which is very clear on what’s not permitted) in the name of some vague freedom.
- From the Virginia Quarterly Review comes a piece on cooking, social media, and intellectual property rights in the kitchen, oddly titled “The Meringue War.”
- Why can a pharmacist invoke religion to refuse to fill a prescription? Shouldn’t we deny such people the right to become pharmacists or doctors?
- A roundtable on the state of barbecue in the U.S. Granted, that’s not the ideal set of six voices, but there are some solid insights and recommended Q joints in there.
- From the BBC: 9 psychological reasons we love lists. Only nine? My lists go to 100, so take that, John Bull.