{"id":2229,"date":"2012-05-05T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T16:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2012-05-05T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T16:15:21","slug":"saturday-five-er-eleven-5512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/05\/saturday-five-er-eleven-5512\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five … er, eleven, 5\/5\/12."},"content":{"rendered":"

I chatted on Friday<\/a>, and wrote a piece on the Royals’ poor start<\/a> on Tuesday and on the Yankees’ next move after Rivera’s injury<\/a> yesterday. My top 100 rankings for this year’s draft will go up on Tuesday, May 8th, with a first-round projection to follow on the 15th.<\/p>\n

Since I couldn’t post a Saturday five last week (I was barely online all weekend), here are eleven links of note for the week:<\/p>\n

* The New Yorker<\/i> on close, or too-close, ties between Stanford and Silicon Valley<\/a>, and on the death of Adam \u201cMCA\u201d Yauch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Ernest Hemingway writes to F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/a> after reading one of my all-time favorite novels, Tender is the Night<\/i>.<\/p>\n

* No, there is no \u201dCurse of Chief Wahoo\u201d<\/a>, but this overtly racist image \u2013 and the racist team nickname that goes along with it \u2013 should be retired as relics of an intolerant age best relegated to the historical dustbin.<\/p>\n

* An excerpt from Jeff Himmelman’s upcoming book<\/a> about whether Woodward and Bernstein used a grand juror as one of their sources on the Watergate scandal.<\/p>\n

* I’m not comfortable with an athletics staffer at a state university actively campaigning for discrimination against members of the LGBT community. Fortunately, neither is my colleague Gene Wojciechowski, who wrote a piece about Nebraska’s assistant football coach, Ron Brown<\/a>. The Kansas City Star<\/i> has also weighed in with a similar yet more pointed op ed<\/a> ahead of Brown’s anticipated testimony Monday against an anti-discrimination bill.<\/p>\n

* Another interview with the Days of Wonder guys about putting Ticket to Ride on the iPad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Over 100 major California chefs have signed a petition opposing the state’s upcoming foie gras ban<\/a>, while proposing more humane standards for raising geese and ducks for foie gras production. I think Alton Brown said it best on Twitter:<\/p>\n

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We make our cows stand knee-deep in crap, shove our chickens in cages smaller than cereal boxes, and you want to complain about foie gras?<\/p>\n

— Alton Brown (@altonbrown) May 4, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n