{"id":4024,"date":"2015-04-18T09:38:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T13:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2015-04-18T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T13:41:05","slug":"saturday-five-41715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/18\/saturday-five-41715\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 4\/18\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Insider post this week covered <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1PIbPVk>seven prospect-laden minor league rosters<\/a>, which went up after Eric Longenhagen identified the <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1PE3tOo>Opening Day assignments<\/a> for all 300 prospects in my thirty team top 10s. This week&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1zkNxGJ>Klawchat transcript<\/a>, full of \u201csmall sample size\u201d questions, is up as well.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Orphan Black, one of the best shows on television, is back tonight with the first episode of season 3. The <i>New Yorker<\/i> has a <a href=http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-history-lurking-behind-orphan-black>history-cum-review of the series<\/a> that points out that it&#8217;s one of the few shows on TV that provides a quality leading role for a woman.<\/li>\n<li>Security expert Bruce Schneier <a href=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2015\/04\/14\/baseballs-new-metal-detectors-wont-keep-you-safe-theyll-just-make-you-miss-a-few-innings\/>MLB metal detectors are a waste of time<\/a>. Schneier&#8217;s been shouting into the void for years about how our reactions to real or imagined threats of terrorism are usually ineffective and sometimes harmful. <\/li>\n<li><i>New Republic<\/i>&#8216;s informative <a href=http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/121501\/history-hot-take?utm_source=digg&#038;utm_medium=email>history of the Hot Take<\/a>. ESPN comes in for a little bit of blame in there.<\/li>\n<li>A vaccine denier mom writes \u2013 from quarantine \u2013 how <a href=http:\/\/thescientificparent.org\/learning-the-hard-way-my-journey-from-antivaxx-to-science\/>she realized she was an idiot when her whole family caught whooping cough<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>How should journalists <a href=http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/4\/13\/8385295\/science-reporting-ethics>cover quacks like the FoodBabe in a fair, ethical manner<\/a>? I don&#8217;t see a quandary here: Present the facts, and if that paints the subject in a bad light, so be it.<\/li>\n<li>Self-styled \u201cfree range\u201d parents <a href=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/maryland-free-range-kids-custody\/story?id=30278320>arrested *again* in Maryland<\/a> for leaving their kids unsupervised well away from the house. They&#8217;re invoking the same \u201cparental rights\u201d nonsense that vaccine deniers try to use, but you can&#8217;t put your kids at risk (and, in this case, violate the law, which is very clear on what&#8217;s not permitted) in the name of some vague freedom.<\/li>\n<li>From the <i>Virginia Quarterly Review<\/i> comes a piece on cooking, social media, and intellectual property rights in the kitchen, oddly titled \u201c<a href=http:\/\/www.vqronline.org\/essays-articles\/2015\/04\/meringue-war>The Meringue War<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Why can a pharmacist <a href=http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2015\/04\/14\/miscarrying_woman_denied_medication_misoprostol_can_be_used_for_both_abortion.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru>invoke religion to refuse to fill a prescription<\/a>? Shouldn&#8217;t we deny such people the right to become pharmacists or doctors?<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/firstwefeast.com\/eat\/the-state-of-barbecue-in-america\/?utm_source=digg&#038;utm_medium=email>A roundtable on the state of barbecue in the U.S.<\/a> Granted, that&#8217;s not the ideal set of six voices, but there are some solid insights and recommended Q joints in there.<\/li>\n<li>From the BBC: <a href=http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20150410-9-reasons-we-love-lists>9 psychological reasons we love lists<\/a>. Only nine? My lists go to 100, so take that, John Bull.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Insider post this week covered seven prospect-laden minor league rosters, which went up after Eric Longenhagen identified the Opening Day assignments for all 300 prospects in my thirty team top 10s. This week&#8217;s Klawchat transcript, full of \u201csmall sample size\u201d questions, is up as well. And now, the links&#8230; Orphan Black, one of the [&hellip;]<\/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":[190,660,807],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","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=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}