My Insider column this week was on players I got wrong, specifically those I underrated (or didn’t rate) when evaluating them as prospects or younger players. I also held my weekly Klawchat here on the dish, which, again, is where they live now.
I’ll try to get a review of the new CHVRCHES album, Every Open Eye
And now, the links…
- One last piece on the Ahmed Mohamed story – which reached ridiculous proportions with a “truther” movement emerging – from Popular Mechanics on why we need more tinkerers like him.
- Journalist Stacy May Fowles with a potent piece on why online harassment of women led her to keep her Twitter account private.
- And here’s exhibit A: Journalist and former attorney Julie DiCaro, who’s been among the leaders in coverage of the Patrick Kane rape allegations, has received threatening tweets for doing her fucking job.
- This is very silly but kind of on point – the duo Fleece did a rather perfect parody of an alt-J song.
- The indispensable J. Kenji Lopez-Alt debunks five myths about Southern cooking. His book, The Food Lab
, is out now.
- Some good news for lovers of dead-tree editions, like me: print books aren’t dead as e-books sales have slipped.
- A health-care researcher in DC writers about why she had an abortion at 21 weeks.
- The Martin Shkreli drug price-gouging story didn’t have a lot of smart takes, but I thought Vox’s brief op ed that the story brought some needed attention to drug pricing was spot on.
- From the “ain’t that some shit” department: A woman in Oklahoma was sentenced to 30 years for failing to protect her kids from her abusive boyfriend, who only got two years for actually abusing them, and her parole request was denied. The parole board’s chair admitted to not knowing “the facts of [her] case.” Good job, Oklahoma.
- Uber, but for helicopters? The New Yorker looks at an app and service that came in handy this week, when you literally couldn’t cross Manhattan east-west.
And this week, a great reader tweet on vaccinations:
@keithlaw my daughters doctors office. pic.twitter.com/0AuxczicMM
— Ica (@IcaMouse3) September 18, 2015
That Oklahoma link is some scary shit.
Julie DiCaro clarified on twitter last night that she had not received death threats, but someone tweeted about her daily routine. Still scary, but thought you should know for clarity’s sake.
Thanks, i edited the post to reflect that.
Keith, have you been keeping up with the super long form HuffPo piece about Johnson and Johnson?
I haven’t seen it. Link?
It doesn’t change the outcome, but the Oklahoma story was updated taking out the offensive quote.
Did you watch the muppets? I admit I enjoyed it.
Also, I’ve sold my wife on Delaware. We had our one year anniversary on Dewey beach, and plan to try salt air. If you need board games or restaurant company in the DC area, we’d love to play. The board game book shelves are a little overwhelmed right now.
I heard the new album sounds very much influenced by Tegan and Sara’s Heartthrob…much like Taylor Swift’s 1989, was influenced by Heartthrob. I really liked their first album and I liked 1989 and Heartthrob.Very much looking forward to it.