{"id":4515,"date":"2015-12-05T09:43:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T14:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2015-12-05T09:43:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T14:43:04","slug":"stick-to-baseball-12515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/05\/stick-to-baseball-12515\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 12\/5\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have written three Insider pieces this week, one on <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1TsMhMw\" target=\"_blank\">David Price and Chris Young<\/a>, one on <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1YPhiNN\" target=\"_blank\">Zack Greinke and John Lackey<\/a>, and one on <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1NWHAWI\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Zimmermann and J.A. Happ<\/a>. I also held my weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1XCeBBS\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Top Chef recaps began this week with <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1TAdtce\" target=\"_blank\">episode one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1O7UJMD\" target=\"_blank\">episode two<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anyone else remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/11\/29\/the-time-sideshow-bob-joined-the-gop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sideshow Bob running for Mayor as a Republican<\/a> in a 1994 Simpsons episode? The <i>Daily Beast<\/i> points out some similarities to a current Presidential candidate.<\/li>\n<li>Quietly underlying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/11\/30\/james-deen-the-bill-cosby-of-porn.html\" target=\"_blank\">the multiple rape accusations against porn actor James Deen<\/a> is the pervasiveness of the idea that any sex worker \u2013 porn actress, prostitute, whatever \u2013 has less of a right of consent than any other woman.\n<li>Of course, if I&#8217;m linking to the Daily Beast twice, I should also include this <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/596591\/daily-beast-finds-terroristy-name-in-phone-book-solves-san-bernardino-case\" target=\"_blank\">takedown of their embarrassing journalistic fails<\/a> in identifying the <em>wrong<\/em> Syed Farook in the San Bernardino attack, including photos and the wrong home address. <\/li>\n<li>Speaking of San Bernardino, a day later &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/04\/opinion\/tough-talk-and-a-cowardly-vote-on-terrorism.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">every Senate Republican except Mark Kirk of Illinois voted against legislation<\/a> to prevent people on the F.B.I.\u2019s consolidated terrorist watchlist from purchasing guns or explosives,&#8221; per the <i>New York Times<\/i>. How this is a partisan issue is beyond my limited cognitive capabilities. The paper followed up today with their first front-page editorial since 1920, calling on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/05\/opinion\/end-the-gun-epidemic-in-america.html?smid=tw-nytimes&#038;smtyp=cur&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">an end to the gun epidemic in the U.S.<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <i>New Yorker<\/i> weighed in too, along the same lines: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/our-shared-blame-for-the-shooting-in-san-bernardino\" target=\"_blank\">The average person does not need these guns<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Those crap viral sites that steal other people&#8217;s content grabbed this one in the last week or two, so here&#8217;s the original: <a href=\"http:\/\/tapastic.com\/episode\/172922\" target=\"_blank\">The Battle, a fantastic comic on having depression and anxiety<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Charles Pierce drops some fire in an op ed for <i>Esquire<\/i> subtitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a40029\/climate-change-debate-2015\/\"  target=\"_blank\">nowhere is Idiot America more at work than in the Climate Change &#8216;debate.&#8217;<\/a> This is yet another topic where we are likely to have one Presidential candidate actively denying settled science. I can vote a lot of ways on the various issues that matter to me, but I can&#8217;t vote for someone who thinks science is a matter of who yells loudest.<\/li>\n<li>In case you were concerned, no, the universe is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/physics\/2015\/12\/controversial-experiment-sees-no-evidence-universe-hologram\" target=\"_blank\">not merely a 3-D hologram<\/a>. I don&#8217;t think any reasonable scientists thought it was, though.<\/li>\n<li>Earth \u2013 you know, this one \u2013 has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/dec\/02\/arable-land-soil-food-security-shortage\" target=\"_blank\">one-third of its arable land in the last four decades<\/a>. You know what they say: you can feed all of the people some of the time, or some of the people all of the time, but you can&#8217;t feed all of the people all of the time.<\/li>\n<li>The Useless Department of Agriculture said something right, for a change, with a brief post on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usda.gov\/2015\/11\/18\/alternatives-to-antibiotics-to-keep-food-animals-healthy\/\" target=\"_blank\">alternatives to antibiotic use in livestock<\/a>. Of course, they could just ban such use as a major public health threat, but, you know, why be so drastic? <\/li>\n<li>Oh, maybe because of the rise in  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2015\/12\/03\/superbug-known-as-phantom-menace-on-the-rise-in-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">carbapanem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae<\/a>, the &#8220;phantom menace&#8221; bacterium that can transfer its resistance to nearby bacteria. <\/li>\n<li>This story&#8217;s a few weeks old, but it seems to be getting relatively little mainstream coverage: The singer known as Kesha (or Ke$ha) has alleged that her producer Dr. Luke sexually abused her, and is now <a href=\"http:\/\/themuse.jezebel.com\/kesha-asks-court-to-let-her-record-without-dr-luke-in-1739674533\" target=\"_blank\">suing Sony for the right to record music without him<\/a>. While I understand the allegations are unproven, why would Sony appear to ignore the allegations, and potentially force an abuse victim into continued contact with her abuser?<\/li>\n<li>Mars&#8217; larger moon, Phobos, has been a key part of many works of fiction that explore colonizing the red planet, and appears as a territory in the game Mission: Red Planet, but it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrobio.net\/topic\/solar-system\/mars\/mars-to-lose-its-largest-moon-but-gain-a-ring\/\" target=\"_blank\">slowly falling toward the planet<\/a> and will fall apart in 20-40 million years, becoming a ring around the god of war. So we&#8217;d better get there fast.<\/li>\n<li>The <i>Hollywood Reporter<\/i> talks about the process behind its annual actors\/actresses roundtables and the pre-Oscar nominations machine in explaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/why-actress-hollywood-reporter-roundtable-841850\" target=\"_blank\">why its actress roundtable has no women of color<\/a> this year. It&#8217;s an ugly reason.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written three Insider pieces this week, one on David Price and Chris Young, one on Zack Greinke and John Lackey, and one on Jordan Zimmermann and J.A. Happ. I also held my weekly Klawchat on Thursday. Top Chef recaps began this week with episode one and episode two. And now, the links&#8230; Anyone [&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":[190,870],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-stick-to-baseball","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","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=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}