{"id":4047,"date":"2015-05-02T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T14:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2015-05-02T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T14:33:55","slug":"saturday-five-5215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/saturday-five-5215\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 5\/2\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My annual ranking of the <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1DT8xW5>top 25 MLB players under 25<\/a> is up for Insiders, as is another draft blog post on <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1Jv6zCZ>Vanderbilt&#8217;s Carson Fulmer and Dansby Swanson<\/a>. My weekly <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1KxCQXR>Klawchat transcript<\/a> is up. <\/p>\n<p>I also appeared on actor Nate Corddry&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1FCLVhZ>Reading Aloud podcast<\/a>, talking mostly about books and pizza with a little baseball chatter thrown in.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/saturdayfive.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/saturdayfive.png\" alt=\"saturdayfive\" width=\"74\" height=\"43\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3812\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>English college student Ione Wells wrote <a href=http:\/\/www.cherwell.org\/lifestyle\/features\/2015\/04\/24\/not-guilty-a-letter-to-my-assaulter>a letter to her assaulter<\/a> as a statement of strength for herself and other victims of sexual assault. It&#8217;s absolutely worth reading (and re-posting, since I tweeted to it on Wednesday).<\/li>\n<li>Anything with David Simon is an auto-link for me; with Baltimore in flames earlier this week, he&#8217;s a a natural commentator, and you might say <a href=https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2015\/04\/29\/david-simon-on-baltimore-s-anguish>he has some thoughts on the matter<\/a>. The failed War on Drugs comes up, as you would expect.<\/li>\n<li>Hugh Acheson and Empire State South barista Dale Donchey will <a href=http:\/\/atlanta.eater.com\/2015\/4\/30\/8523815\/hugh-acheson-ponce-city-market-coffeeshop>open a new coffee shop called Spiller Park Coffee<\/a> in Atlanta&#8217;s Ponce City Market, with a projected opening date in September. They&#8217;ll use a selection from a small number of the best small\/third-wave roasters in the country.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly all economists agree <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/26\/upshot\/economists-actually-agree-on-this-point-the-wisdom-of-free-trade.html?smid=pl-share&#038;_r=3&#038;abt=0002&#038;abg=0>free trade is good<\/a>, so why are some members of Congress fighting renewal of the President&#8217;s Trade Promotion Authority? Why is Elizabeth Warren, by all accounts a fairly intelligent person, on the wrong side of the table here \u2013 along with a good chunk of her fellow Democrats?<\/li>\n<li>The <i>New York Times<\/i> was strong this week, between that op ed and this investigative report on <a href=http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/26\/us\/politics\/deep-support-in-washington-for-cias-drone-missions.html?referrer=&#038;_r=1>the deep, unspoken support for the drone program<\/a> within Washington&#8217;s inner circles of power.<\/li>\n<li>Chipotle, the most responsible of all national food chains when it comes to sourcing ingredients, will <a href=http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/blue-marble\/2015\/04\/chipotle-gmos-anti-science>no longer serve food made with GMO ingredients<\/a>. That&#8217;s too bad, as it feeds into FraudBabe-style anti-science woo-woo; GMOs are completely safe to eat and can improve crop yields, although they have negative externalities regarding pesticide use. (I still favor GMO labelling, as it&#8217;s the consumer&#8217;s right to decide what to consume, even if they want to be stupid about it.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/goatsandsoda\/2015\/04\/30\/403388700\/western-hemisphere-wipes-out-its-third-virus>Rubella has been eradicated in the Americas<\/a>. You know why? Because vaccines. It&#8217;s the third virus that infects humans to be wiped out in this hemisphere and the fourth virus in total (including rinderpest, which infected mostly cattle and buffalo).<\/li>\n<li>NPR&#8217;s Fresh Air dedicated a show to an interview with journalist Mark Arax about <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/04\/30\/403283276\/drought-in-calif-creates-water-wars-between-farmers-developers-residents>California&#8217;s water wars<\/a>, especially the current conflict over almond farms&#8217; use of water.<\/li>\n<li>A short but potent piece from Ta-Nehisi Coates on <a href=http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/04\/nonviolence-as-compliance\/391640\/>Nonviolence as Compliance<\/a> in Baltimore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My annual ranking of the top 25 MLB players under 25 is up for Insiders, as is another draft blog post on Vanderbilt&#8217;s Carson Fulmer and Dansby Swanson. My weekly Klawchat transcript is up. 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