Stick to baseball, 8/17/24.

I’m on PTO from the Athletic this week and next, so there won’t be any new content from me over there until the week of August 26th. I had some plans to hit a Blue Rocks game last week, before my PTO, but 2+ inches of rain in our area scotched that (although they did play on one of those days, which flabbergasted me because that field doesn’t drain well). I was on the road a ton this week – something like 23 hours in the car in the last five days – so I don’t have as many links as usual, either.

I’ve got a review filed to Paste for Rock Hard 1977, the board game designed by Runaways bassist Jackie Fox (Fuchs) that was also my #1 new game from Gen Con this year.

I do have a newsletter half-written, so feel free to run over and sign up (it’s free) before I finish the damn thing already.

And now, the links…

  • The plastics industry is pushing to change the rules on what they can label “recyclable” – in short, if something could, hypothetically, be recycled, they want to label it as such, regardless of whether such recycling is readily available or feasible. I see this crap already with things labeled “compostable” that require access to industrial composting, so you can’t just throw it in your home compost bin or pile.
  • The chief of police in Millersville, Tennessee, is under investigation by the state for all kinds of malfeasance, and when Channel 5’s Phil Williams spoke to him, the chief called Williams a pedophile.
  • These weirdos’ attacks on Vice-President Harris for not having kids will only backfire on them, writes Jess Grose of the NY Times. I think it already has, to some extent.

Comments

  1. Khelif deserves a second gold medal for being the person to finally make JK Rowling stop tweeting

  2. Brian in NoVA

    The tampon thing is beyond stupid. Most people live in a house or apartment with a bathroom that is for all genders. I’m pretty sure growing up in a 4 person house with 1.5 bathrooms and 2 females that tampons were in the bathroom I used. Hell considering my dad did most of the grocery shopping while I was growing up, he was probably the one buying them. I just can’t even with these people. Walz was right to call them weird. They fixate on some of the oddest stuff.

  3. Yeah but at least the Adventists didn’t interfere with the ice cream giveaway. Hail Zorp.

  4. Brian in SoCal

    Jackie Fuchs is a good friend of mine. I will pass along your review to her. And she’s more than just the former bassist for the Runaways. She’s also a Harvard Law alum (and a classmate of Barack Obama’s there) and she was a four-day Jeopardy! champion.

  5. The purposeful immiseration of Gaza is a tragedy that doesn’t get enough visibility. It’s not just about the death count.