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.

My one Insider piece this week covers my breakout player picks for 2016. I also reviewed the simple abstract strategy game Circular Reasoning for Paste. I was unable to chat this week due to travel and attending games in Florida.

And now, the links…

• Well this is some bullshit: The Tribeca film festival is screening a vaccine-denial “documentary” directed by Andrew Wakefield. Yes, Wakefield, the guy who faked the MMR/autism study that helped land us in this mess in the first place. Fuck you, Robert Deniro, for being a denialist and spreading this garbage.
• Meanwhile, Uganda will jail parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids.
• Drew Magary on why he’ll never quit Twitter. It’s the same reason I probably won’t either: We have audiences there, and tweeting to those audiences gets people to read our writing.
• Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post wrote a piece on Tyler Matzek and how they’re both battling anxiety disorder.
• Under Crazy Scott Walker, the state of Wisconsin gutted tenure at public universities, which led to foreseeable yet unforeseen consequences at UW-Madison. Tenure is a bad system, but Wisconsin replaced it with something worse.
• The Atlantic points out how the Republican party, which professes to be the party of business, passed a law businesses hate this week, just to screw with gay people. If your bigotry runs that deep, then you’re not the party of business – and you’re going to let the Democrats, long seen as the party of higher taxes and more regulations, seize some of that reputation.
• There might be a vaccine for dengue fever – which kills over 10,000 people each year – on the horizon, and that in turn could lead to a vaccine for the related Zika virus.
• I loved this NY Times profile of both Natasha Gregson-Wagner and her mother Natalie Wood. I remember watching the atrocious Two Girls and a Guy and finding it totally ridiculous that Gregson-Wagner was supposed to be playing the unattractive (or at least less attractive) girlfriend.
• Reader Reggie passed along this interesting piece on our brains’ evolution may be related to anxiety, in that our brains evolved (he uses the “were designed for” phrasing, which isn’t scientifically accurate) to handle a different type of stress than we typically face today. I also recommend the site Sick Not Weak, founded by TSN personality Michael Lansberg to promote understanding of mental illness, including depression and anxiety.