{"id":4117,"date":"2015-06-13T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2015-06-13T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:48:13","slug":"saturday-five-61315","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/13\/saturday-five-61315\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 6\/13\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Insiders, my recaps of the drafts for <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1Fb3BvR>all 15 NL teams<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1KWyMQK>all 15 AL teams<\/a> are up, as well as my <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1eZlI38>round one reactions<\/a> and a <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1f309yz>post-draft Klawchat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have another place for this, but I read Michael Ruhlman&#8217;s short autobiographical Kindle Single <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B009ECEO16\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B009ECEO16&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkId=T4V6QFXK75PTQ63O\">The Main Dish<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=meadowpartyco-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B009ECEO16\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> ($1.99) this week, right after the draft ended, and enjoyed it tremendously. I love Ruhlman&#8217;s writing in general, but the insight into how he became a writer \u2013 he even uses \u201caccidental\u201d the way I often call myself an accidental sportswriter \u2013 seems like it would be very valuable for anyone considering a career in prose.<\/p>\n<p>And now, this week&#8217;s links&#8230;<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\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bill and Melinda Gates <a href=http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danalexander\/2015\/06\/04\/warren-buffett-toasts-the-worlds-two-greatest-philanthropists-bill-and-melinda-gates\/?utm_campaign=ForbesTech&#038;utm_source=TWITTER&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_channel=Technology&#038;linkId=14720394>have given away over $29 billion<\/a>, and Warren Buffett is dedicating another $70 billion of his fortune to their Foundation. Buried within this piece: There hasn&#8217;t been a new case of polio in Africa in nine months, a remarkable change given the continued violence perpetrated by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria. Polio is now only endemic in the undergoverned region that joins Pakistan and Afghanistan. <\/li>\n<li>The House of Representatives voted <a href=http:\/\/www.foodsafetynews.com\/2015\/06\/house-votes-to-repeal-country-of-origin-labeling-for-meat\/#.VXm3dflVikp>to repeal the Country of Origin Labeling Act<\/a> that required packaged meat indicate where the animals came from, because it conflicts with WTO rules. I&#8217;m of two minds on this: I favor more labeling that tells consumers about what they&#8217;re buying, but I also believe in free trade and don&#8217;t like the idea of us flouting our trade agreements when we rely on them for fair access to other markets. That said, there&#8217;s nothing that says meat vendors can&#8217;t tell you where the meat is from \u2026 and if you buy local meat, you&#8217;re covered.<\/li>\n<li>In some local schools in England, teachers are <a href=http:\/\/www.cheddarvalleygazette.co.uk\/Scotch-eggs-Banned\/story-26670594-detail\/story.html>confiscating Scotch eggs from lunchboxes<\/a> as well as other foods deemed unhealthful. This strikes me as an outrageous overreach, and one likely based on very bad science that holds that dietary fat is bad for us.<\/li>\n<li>Comedy writer Ben Schwartz wrote a fantastic essay on <a href=http:\/\/www.thebaffler.com\/blog\/shutting\/>comedy and the \u201cPC\u201d response<\/a>, although much of what he says applies to our culture as a whole.<\/li>\n<li>Two great examples of people being misled by statistics, both stories from NPR: One on <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2015\/06\/11\/412943456\/why-is-this-fisherman-selling-threatened-bluefin-tuna-for-2-99-a-pound>bluefin tuna selling cheaply in San Diego<\/a>, because fishermen say it&#8217;s plentiful when in reality it&#8217;s not; and a <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2015\/06\/11\/413433350\/data-dive-suggests-link-between-heartburn-drugs-and-heart-attacks>possible link between some heartburn medications and heart disease<\/a>, but from a study that doesn&#8217;t explain causation while ignoring potential confounding variables.<\/li>\n<li>OK, one more great NPR link: How fad diets are merely <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2015\/06\/11\/412973926\/how-diet-gurus-hook-us-with-religion-veiled-in-science>pseudoscience wrapped in a veneer of ancient religious memes<\/a>. I love the fake fad diet piece at the end.<\/li>\n<li><i>Downton Abbey<\/i> is filming its final season and <a href=http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2015\/06\/downton-abbey-last-season-dowager?mbid=social_twitter>Maggie Smith is glad it&#8217;s coming to an end<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I believe I linked to the <i>New Yorker<\/i> story from last year about Kalief Browder, a man held in Rikers for three years without ever being convicted of a crime. He was eventually freed, but <a href=http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/kalief-browder-1993-2015>took his own life last week<\/a>. Browder was 22 years old.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t remember the original Chip&#8217;s Challenge game, but this story <a href=http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2015\/06\/how-an-early-90s-windows-gaming-classic-was-unearthed-after-years-in-limbo\/>on the arduous process of getting a sequel released<\/a> was still fascinating.<\/li>\n<li>This excellent <i>New York Times<\/i> <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/14\/business\/media\/gawker-nick-denton-moment-of-truth.html?partner=socialflow&#038;smid=tw-nytimesbusiness&#038;_r=1>profile of Gawker and its founder Nick Denton<\/a> also discusses the important First Amendment ramifications of Hulk Hogan&#8217;s lawsuit against the company for posting a clip of him having sex with his friend&#8217;s wife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Insiders, my recaps of the drafts for all 15 NL teams and all 15 AL teams are up, as well as my round one reactions and a post-draft Klawchat. I don&#8217;t have another place for this, but I read Michael Ruhlman&#8217;s short autobiographical Kindle Single The Main Dish ($1.99) this week, right after 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":[131,190,824,660,807,707],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food-safety","tag-links","tag-pseudoscience","tag-saturday-five","tag-vaccines","tag-video-games","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","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=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}