{"id":4606,"date":"2016-01-09T10:37:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T15:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2016-01-09T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T15:37:46","slug":"stick-to-baseball-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/09\/stick-to-baseball-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 1\/9\/16."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No new Insider content this week as I was mostly busy with phone calls for the top 100 prospects package, which will run the week immediately following the Super Bowl. I did hold a <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1ISMA2P\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday, and I have another new game review up at <em>Paste<\/em>, for <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1SFNeTc\" target=\"_blank\">the family-oriented game Skyliners<\/a>, which I thought was kind of mediocre overall.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That TV show about a &#8220;special victims unit&#8221; is hot garbage, but this <em>NY Times<\/em> piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/10\/magazine\/to-catch-a-rapist.html\" target=\"_blank\">a real-world sex-crimes police unit<\/a> is gripping, if disheartening, reading.<\/li>\n<li>Rakim discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/id.36847\/title.rakim-talks-musical-upbringing-with-krs-one\" target=\"_blank\">how John Coltrane influenced his vocal flow<\/a> in a brief clip with KRS-One.<\/li>\n<li>Remember that whole &#8220;CDC Whistleblower&#8221; meme that the vaccine deniers liked to throw around? Well, a review of the actual documents from that scientist showed <a href=\"http:\/\/leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk\/2016\/01\/04\/the-william-thompson-documents-theres-no-whistle-to-blow\/\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s no whistle to blow<\/a> because there&#8217;s nothing scandalous or untoward here.<\/li>\n<li>A harrowing first-person piece from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/201601\/my-brother-the-unabomber\" target=\"_blank\">the brother of the Unabomber<\/a>, on realizing that the mail-bomber terrorist was actually his sibling.<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Folta, who was hounded offline by anti-GMO and anti-science shills claiming the scientist was secretly in the pocket of Big Ag, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingbiotechpodcast.com\/?p=199\" target=\"_blank\">resuming his biotech podcast<\/a> next month.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Gates has a blog! Okay, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/04\/fashion\/bill-gates-gates-notes-books.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">a blog where he posts book reviews<\/a> and only a total dork would do that.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> ran <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/sports-illustrated-wants-to-redeem-adrian-peterson-eve-1751265970\" target=\"_blank\">a puff piece on child-abuser Adrian Peterson<\/a>, who seems to want no part of the redemption effort.<\/li>\n<li>Why the U.S. \u2013 and other countries, of course \u2013 should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2031911\/why-nobody-wants-host-olympics-america-least-all?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=digg\" target=\"_blank\">stop bidding to host the Olympics<\/a>. I wouldn&#8217;t be opposed to a law that prohibits any U.S. jurisdiction from paying an international organization (like the IOC or FIFA) for the &#8220;rights&#8221; to host a global sporting event. They&#8217;re negative-ROI deals that tend to be boondoggles for the organizers.<\/li>\n<li>Eater covers how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eater.com\/2016\/1\/8\/10732130\/open-carry-texas-guns-restaurants\" target=\"_blank\">Texas restaurants are dealing with the state&#8217;s open carry law<\/a>. In a related story, I&#8217;m very glad I don&#8217;t live in a state with an open carry law. If I&#8217;m eating dinner in a place where there&#8217;s even a moderate chance I&#8217;ll need a gun during the course of the meal, I probably should eat somewhere else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No new Insider content this week as I was mostly busy with phone calls for the top 100 prospects package, which will run the week immediately following the Super Bowl. I did hold a Klawchat on Thursday, and I have another new game review up at Paste, for the family-oriented game Skyliners, which I thought [&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-4606","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\/4606","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=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4608,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}