It’s been quite a week, but the draft is over, finally, so I have some thoughts and analysis on what happened:
• My round one notes
• My round two notes
• My NL team-by-team recaps
I’m still writing the AL recaps and will have those up by tomorrow.
I chatted before the draft and after the first five rounds.
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And now, the links…
- The judge who gave Stanford rapist Brock Turner six months, saying a longer sentence would have a “severe impact” on this sentient pile of shit, has been the target of threats after the ruling. Here’s the one threat I can get behind: an effort to recall Judge Persky, which I’d hope you would sign and back if you live in Santa Clara County.
- Of course, it’s hard to get too optimistic when voters in Orange County re-elected a judge censured for having sex with two law students in chambers, as well as failing to recuse himself in a case where he had a conflict of interest.
- There’s a new restaurant in LA called Birdies that sells fried chicken, donuts, and good coffee. Why eat anywhere else in LA?
- The Appalachian tradition of salt-rising bread, fermented with Clostridium perfringens, a Gram-positive bacterium that causes food poisoning, is vanishing. Baking kills the bacteria, of course.
- Angola’s bushmeat markets are alive and well, even though they’re illegal.
- A Twitter user who was harassed by vaccine-denier assholes ended up having Twitter give them her home address as she tried to get the site to take down photos of her infant child that the harassers were using. (I looked up two of the main harassers; one I’d already blocked, the other had blocked me.)
- Some actual good news on the vaccine front: researchers have developed the first vaccine for toxic shock syndrome, a dangerous type of staph infection, and the FDA has approved a new cholera vaccine for travelers to affected areas.
- Also, we’re cranking up requirements for the meningitis B vaccine, which is particularly recommended for adolescents and college students. If you’ve got a kid going to college, make sure s/he has gotten this shot.
- Donald Trump is being sued many times over for not paying tradesworkers and employees, as well as numerous other liens for back pay.
- Japanese knotweed is the hot new ingredient in kitchens, and since it’s a destructive, invasive plant, no one has to worry about sustainability.
- Some parenting anti-tips on how to teach your daughters that their consent doesn’t matter.
- Scientists have found antibiotic-resistant “super bacteria” pretty much everywhere in Rio. These Olympics might be an all-time disaster, and no one who matters seems to be willing to entertain the possibility of moving or canceling the games. Money talks, even if we might get a global pandemic as a result.