No new Insider content this week as I was mostly busy with phone calls for the top 100 prospects package, which will run the week immediately following the Super Bowl. I did hold a Klawchat on Thursday, and I have another new game review up at Paste, for the family-oriented game Skyliners, which I thought was kind of mediocre overall.
And now, the links…
- That TV show about a “special victims unit” is hot garbage, but this NY Times piece on a real-world sex-crimes police unit is gripping, if disheartening, reading.
- Rakim discusses how John Coltrane influenced his vocal flow in a brief clip with KRS-One.
- Remember that whole “CDC Whistleblower” meme that the vaccine deniers liked to throw around? Well, a review of the actual documents from that scientist showed there’s no whistle to blow because there’s nothing scandalous or untoward here.
- A harrowing first-person piece from the brother of the Unabomber, on realizing that the mail-bomber terrorist was actually his sibling.
- Kevin Folta, who was hounded offline by anti-GMO and anti-science shills claiming the scientist was secretly in the pocket of Big Ag, is resuming his biotech podcast next month.
- Bill Gates has a blog! Okay, it’s a blog where he posts book reviews and only a total dork would do that.
- Sports Illustrated ran a puff piece on child-abuser Adrian Peterson, who seems to want no part of the redemption effort.
- Why the U.S. – and other countries, of course – should stop bidding to host the Olympics. I wouldn’t be opposed to a law that prohibits any U.S. jurisdiction from paying an international organization (like the IOC or FIFA) for the “rights” to host a global sporting event. They’re negative-ROI deals that tend to be boondoggles for the organizers.
- Eater covers how Texas restaurants are dealing with the state’s open carry law. In a related story, I’m very glad I don’t live in a state with an open carry law. If I’m eating dinner in a place where there’s even a moderate chance I’ll need a gun during the course of the meal, I probably should eat somewhere else.
The Food Babe army swings and misses again.
The problem with making everything a conspiracy is that you soon disregard the facts.
Finally got around to reading the Sex Crimes police unit read — great piece but very depressing stuff. Here’s to hoping that recent improvements and focus in select cities around the US start to take hold elsewhere, and the passion and dedication on the part of the detectives profiled in the article also spread to others.
Hey Keith, Delaware actually does allow open carry. It’s just that no one seems to care.
Thanks, i see now that you’re correct. I had seen a map of the US that incorrectly labelled DE as a state without open carry. I wonder if I would see more open carry if I lived in Sussex County rather than here in northern Newcastle Co.