{"id":2480,"date":"2012-11-10T19:01:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2012-11-10T19:01:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T00:01:27","slug":"saturday-five-111012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/10\/saturday-five-111012\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 11\/10\/12."},"content":{"rendered":"

Five plus one this week, although the last one probably only matters if you have ties to Long Island.<\/p>\n

* From The Atlantic<\/i>, a look at from where post-election racist tweets emanated<\/a>. There’s been a fair amount of debate over the practice of outing people, often kids, who say awful things on Twitter, but on this topic I subscribe to the thinking of Shakti Gawain, who said, “Evil is like a shadow – it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light… In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.” And maybe we could make the morons who compound their ignorance by crying “freedom of speech!” after they’re exposed take a civics class to learn what the First Amendment actually means.<\/p>\n

* Also from The Atlantic<\/i>, a piece on the problem with “rape exceptions” in anti-abortion laws<\/a>. The author makes a pretty compelling case that they’re worthless.<\/p>\n

* Brandon Heipp’s piece at BP on the history of “replacement level” in baseball analysis<\/a> was a great and timely read, given confusion over the term in the religious wars around the AL MVP contest.<\/p>\n

* mental_floss delves into the secret lives of six spices<\/a>. It quotes Giles Milton, whose book Nathaniel’s Nutmeg<\/a>\"\"<\/i> is one of my favorite non-fiction books on any subject.<\/p>\n

* Bookmarked but unread, a short story recommended by Michael Ruhlman called “The End of Baseball<\/a>.” It’s only accessible if you have Flash, as far as I can tell.<\/p>\n

* I concede this is of interest to maybe a handful of people besides me, but this New York Times<\/i> review of Kushi, a new sushi restaurant in Nesconset<\/a>, caught my eye because it’s about a mile and a half from the house where I grew up, and which my parents just sold earlier this year. If anyone’s tried it, I’d love to hear how it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five plus one this week, although the last one probably only matters if you have ties to Long Island. * From The Atlantic, a look at from where post-election racist tweets emanated. There’s been a fair amount of debate over the practice of outing people, often kids, who say awful things on Twitter, but on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,660],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}