{"id":4481,"date":"2015-11-28T12:59:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T17:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2015-11-28T12:59:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T17:59:51","slug":"stick-to-baseball-112815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/28\/stick-to-baseball-112815\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 11\/28\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Longenhagen and I posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1PShvOo\" target=\"_blank\">too-early ranking of the top 2016 MLB draft prospects<\/a>, one that highlights the lack of a clear #1 overall prospect. <\/p>\n<p>I reviewed two boardgames for <i>Paste<\/i> recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1MRqlWS\" target=\"_blank\">the tile-laying game Cacao<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1R1w6q5\" target=\"_blank\">the family adventure game Mission: Red Planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Around these parts, I posted my annual <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1IbHicy\" target=\"_blank\">list of recommended cookbooks<\/a> and a short post listing <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1LDAwg2\" target=\"_blank\">boardgame app sales for this weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Glenn Greenwald <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/11\/20\/cnns-punishment-of-refugee-defending-journalist-highlights-media-abdication\/\" target=\"_blank\">destroyed CNN<\/a> for suspending reporter Elise Labott for two weeks for a rather innocuous (my opinion) tweet on the Syrian refugee topic. Greenwald even went on CNN to rip them apart for their fearmongering and mishandling of Labott, as covered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2015\/11\/23\/glenn-greenwald-for-cnn-ombudsman\/\" target=\"_blank\">here by Erik Wemple<\/a>, whose initial complaint of Labott&#8217;s &#8220;bias&#8221; in her tweet seems to have sparked the suspension. (Wemple has said he opposes such suspensions, but I don&#8217;t see why he singled out Labott, a relatively unknown female reporter, among the various more serious breaches of ethics Greenwald listed.)<\/li>\n<li>Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks says Syrian refugees are <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/world\/2015\/11\/21\/3724723\/mo-brooks-syrian-refugees-vacation\/\" target=\"_blank\">just looking for a &#8220;paid vacation.&#8221;<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Is the west&#8217;s reaction to the Paris terror attacks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2015\/nov\/16\/paris-attacks-isis-strategy-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\">the war that ISIS wants<\/a>? <\/li>\n<li>The young Iraqis who are presumably risking their lives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourmiddleeast.com\/culture\/the-young-iraqis-promoting-evolutionary-theory-and-rational-thought-to-save-iraq_35450\" target=\"_blank\">promoted evolutionary theory and rational thinking<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A great longread on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/chinese-food-and-the-joy-of-inauthentic-cooking\" target=\"_blank\">so-called &#8220;inauthentic&#8221; ethnic cuisine<\/a> as practiced by Asian-American chefs like Danny Bowien, Dale Talde, and David Chang. Authenticity is great, but isn&#8217;t de facto superior to inauthentic food made well.<\/li>\n<li>The <i>Guardian<\/i> weighs in on fad diets that are often light on science, asking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2015\/nov\/22\/what-is-healthy-eating\" target=\"_blank\">what constitutes &#8220;healthy eating?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Aziz Ansari appeared on NPR&#8217;s <i>The Hidden Brain<\/i> podcast to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/11\/17\/455674528\/aziz-ansari-talking-modern-love-with-the-master-of-none\" target=\"_blank\">discuss findings from his book on love and dating<\/a>, co-authored with a sociologist, called <i><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594206279\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1594206279&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkId=GMMXQ5JFSSTQPXJX\">Modern Romance<\/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=1594206279\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Via a reader, a story from June in <i>Slate<\/i> that describes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2015\/06\/10\/aquafaba_baking_with_chickpea_liquid_for_vegan_meringues.html\" target=\"_blank\">aquafaba, the possible vegan replacement for egg whites<\/a>. It&#8217;s actually just the brining liquid found in canned chickpeas, and for reasons not yet understood, its protein structure can create a stable foam just like the albumin from chicken eggs.<\/li>\n<li>Remember that hedge fund douchebag who bought the rights to a decades-old drug and raised the price fifty-fold, then reversed that decision under public pressure? Yeah, well, they <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2015\/11\/750pill-pharma-company-reverses-decision-to-lower-drug-price\/\" target=\"_blank\">reversed that reversal<\/a>. It&#8217;s a clear situation where the free market \u2013 of which I&#8217;m a rather ardent supporter \u2013 fails, because the market for the drug is so small (the <i>NY Times<\/i> says that there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/21\/business\/a-huge-overnight-increase-in-a-drugs-price-raises-protests.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">only 8821 prescriptions for it<\/a> in 2014<\/a>) that it likely wouldn&#8217;t support the creation of a competitor due to the high regulatory costs. The only solution I see would be for the FDA to &#8220;fast track&#8221; a generic alternative, assuming a manufacturer could be found \u2013 or, unfortunately, for the federal government to mandate a price cap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Longenhagen and I posted a too-early ranking of the top 2016 MLB draft prospects, one that highlights the lack of a clear #1 overall prospect. I reviewed two boardgames for Paste recently, the tile-laying game Cacao and the the family adventure game Mission: Red Planet. Around these parts, I posted my annual list of [&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":[385,132,190,660,799,870],"class_list":["post-4481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chinese-cuisine","tag-food-science","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","tag-science","tag-stick-to-baseball","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481","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=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4484,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}