{"id":4838,"date":"2016-04-30T09:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T13:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T14:04:04","slug":"stick-to-baseball-43016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/30\/stick-to-baseball-43016\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 4\/30\/16."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No new Insider content this week, although I had a draft blog post last Saturday on <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1Sk0exZ\" target=\"_blank\">Riley Pint, Joey Wentz, Braxton Garrett, and more players I saw<\/a>. I held my usual <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1UjbcFd\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From my alma mater&#8217;s magazine, can <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2016\/05\/editing-an-end-to-malaria\" target=\"_blank\">gene editing lead to the end of malaria<\/a> and other mosquito-borne diseases? What are the ecological consequences of wiping out a species to better humanity?<\/li>\n<li>My friend Lindsey Adler wrote a heartbreaking piece about <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@lahlahlindsey\/five-years-ago-i-weighed-just-over-100-pounds-f79b514dcfca#.jhpvrvuwa\" target=\"_blank\">her past battle with anorexia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A female state Senator in South Carolina has introduced a bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/340536-south-carolina-viagra-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">requiring counseling and a 24-hour waiting period for men to get a Viagra prescription<\/a> to highlight the gender inequity in laws that restrict abortion access. No, it&#8217;s not an apt analogy, nor do I think Sen. Mia McLeod is trying to compare the two directly; she&#8217;s pointing out, correctly, that anti-abortion laws are largely passed by men and only affect women.<\/li>\n<li>More evidence and arguments contradicting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/26\/upshot\/avoiding-peanuts-to-avoid-an-allergy-is-a-bad-strategy-for-most.html\" target=\"_blank\">allergen-avoidance strategy for new parents<\/a> from the <em>NY Times<\/em>. <\/li>\n<li>Nearly half of (self-described) conservative Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-04-27\/half-of-u-s-conservatives-say-climate-change-is-real\" target=\"_blank\">climate change is real<\/a>, so why is the putative party of conservatives still in denial?<\/li>\n<li>In Oklahoma, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/apr\/27\/oral-sex-rape-ruling-tulsa-oklahoma-alcohol-consent?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_blank\">non-consensual oral sex isn&#8217;t rape if the victim is drunk<\/a>, because Oklahoma law is still stuck in the 1800s.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>NY Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/28\/sports\/basketball\/ozzie-silna-savvy-owner-of-the-st-louis-spirits-is-dead-at-83.html?referer=\" target=\"_blank\">obituary of Ozzie Silna, former owner of the ABA&#8217;s Spirits of St. Louis<\/a>, is an ebullient retelling of the saga of the greatest deal in sports history.<\/li>\n<li>Memphis has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/27\/health\/6-measles-cases-reported-in-memphis-area-exceeding-rest-of-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">six identified measles cases already<\/a>, several infants plus one unvaccinated dipshit adult. A woman in Washington died of measles last year, so, you know, get the damn shot already.<\/li>\n<li>I linked a few weeks ago to a story on Sci-Hub, the not-really-legal site where researchers can download copyrighted academic papers for free, and <em>Science<\/em> has a report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2016\/04\/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone\" target=\"_blank\">how everyone around the world is using it<\/a>. <em>Slate<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2016\/04\/science_magazine_can_t_defend_its_flawed_business_model.html\" target=\"_blank\">rips<\/a> <em>Science<\/em> for an accompanying editorial defending the academic-journal paywall. Copyright law has a purpose, but providing huge economic rents on academic papers was not one. <\/li>\n<li>Reader Ridley Kemp passed along this link after Thursday&#8217;s chat: <em>Nature<\/em> blows up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/sex-redefined-1.16943\" target=\"_blank\">the myth of gender as biologically binary<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>FiveThirtyEight goes deep on the concept of <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/universal-basic-income\/\" target=\"_blank\">universal basic income<\/a>, a new and unproven way to address the income gap, poverty, and economic insecurity. It&#8217;s also very expensive and probably a political non-starter. My gut says it&#8217;s crazy.<\/li>\n<li>There isn&#8217;t much new in the Brigham Young University honor code scandal, but this <em>Guardian<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/apr\/30\/mormon-rape-victims-shame-brigham-young-university\" target=\"_blank\">summary of the school&#8217;s absurd victim-crushing policies<\/a> is a strong read. I still do not see why this school is receiving any federal funds at this point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No new Insider content this week, although I had a draft blog post last Saturday on Riley Pint, Joey Wentz, Braxton Garrett, and more players I saw. I held my usual Klawchat on Thursday. And now, the links&#8230; From my alma mater&#8217;s magazine, can gene editing lead to the end of malaria and other mosquito-borne [&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":[828,883,870,807],"class_list":["post-4838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-rape-culture","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838","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=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4841,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}