My second first-round projection (mock draft) went up on Tuesday, and I held a Klawchat, in which some guy got mad at me for answering a question about my first-round projections by including that link, on Friday. It’s bad enough civility is dead, but must we continue to mutiliate its corpse?

My latest boardgame review for Paste covers the light detective/puzzle game Watson & Holmes, yet another game that uses those public-domain characters strictly for marketing purposes. It’s not a bad game, though, just a little too simple.

I’m told that Smart Baseball continues to sell well, although the sales figures I get mean nothing to me (since it’s my first book), but it wouldn’t hurt if you bought a dozen more copies to give out for Father’s Day to … um … your twelve fathers. Feel free to sign up for my email newsletter as well.

And now, the links…

• I tweeted this one earlier in the week but it’s worth a second boost: Child marriage is still legal in Florida and several other states. As I read the Delaware statute (note: I’m not a lawyer) I think it’s technically legal here too, whereas the author of that op ed is arguing for it to be explicitly banned.
• A professor at Evergreen State College has been the target of protests and threats of violence for challenging a campus tradition that, this year, asked white students and faculty to leave campus in a day of forced segregation.
• Tasting Table dissects the Philly staple, the roast pork sandwich, including the best of the breed, the version at High Street on Market, with house-made bread and fermented broccoli rabe.
• Why is east Africa starving while corn silos in South Africa are overflowing? Because most African countries, including hard-hit Kenya, ban imports of GMO corn. Fear of science is actually killing people.
• What is it about Haruki Murakami that mesmerizes people? I found his two best novels, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore, to be just that – mesmerizing, like reading your way into a dream-state – but everything before and after those two has left me flat.
• The Ringer talked to the four actors who played The Kids in season four of The Wire.
• A study published last August found that some cases of ‘untreatable’ depression were tied to metabolic deficiencies and could be treated with supplements, some as common as folate.
• Legendary tech writer Walter Mossberg, who spent many years as the technology reviewer-critic for the Wall Street Journal, is retiring and wrote his final column for Recode.
• This Atlantic piece from a month ago is the best explanation I’ve found of ESPN’s layoffs and changing business model. Our revenues are driven by cable subscriptions, and as people cut cable, entirely or partially (me), it’s going to reduce the revenues of every cable station. So, no, this isn’t about the white nationalists’ claims that ESPN itself is a leftist entity.
• Into the swamp: Jared Kushner used a federal loan program aimed at helping poor, job-starved areas to build a luxury skyscraper.
• HHS Secretary Tom Price enriched himself by buying drug stocks and pushing policies to help those companies.
• The Administration appointed Nantworks CEO Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong to a health information technology advisory committee. He has a history of rigging donations to fuel the money back to his company and accused media reporting on his company’s revenue troubles of pushing fake news.
• Although this Washington Post story purports to discuss fake news coming from within the White House, I think the real message is how supporters of this Administration choose to believe only what they wish to believe. Anonymous sources are fine if they tell you what you wanted to hear; otherwise, they’re “fake news.” You see this with science deniers and conspiracy theorists (people who call themselves “truthers” withou a trace of irony) too.
• “Auntie” Maxine Waters has become a hero to the online (so-called) resistance, but they are conveniently forgetting her history of corruption allegations.
• How on earth did a prep school teacher work for four schools in six years despite accusations of sexual misconduct at three of them? Rhetorical question, of course: Schools didn’t and still don’t report this stuff to future employers.
• The New York Times axed its ‘public editor’ this week and, really, when they run garbage this puff piece on “wellness” charlatan Amanda Chantal Bacon, it’s hard to understand what that person was doing in the first place.
• An autistic writer penned this piece in February about the irresponsibility of speculation around whether Barron Trump is on the spectrum. I don’t think such speculation is remotely fair or warranted, but it resurfaced this week with the totally unverifiable story that Barron thought Kathy Griffin’s (offensive) photo of her holding a fake, bloody Trump head was real.
• I thought this story about Melania Trump and the wife of the Israeli President was a rare glimpse into the humanity of someone who, fairly or not, is painted as a mere trophy wife.
• Oklahoma’s budget crisis has many schools dropping to just four days a week of classes. Both Oklahoma and Kansas are run by far-right Republican Governors who’ve helped drive their states off the fiscal cliff, and who’ve widely expanded publicly-funded charter schools at the apparent expense of traditional public schools.
• This seems like a big deal – the FDA just approved the first cancer-fighting drug tied to a specific biomarker in the tumor. Previous cancer drugs were all targeted to a type of cancer – lung, skin, blood – defined by its original location in the body.
• I’ll end with this.
  

  For some international perspective on the Paris Accord, this is from Australia's @theage. pic.twitter.com/lAnaxWKT1T

  — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 2, 2017