{"id":4875,"date":"2016-05-21T10:51:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T14:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2016-05-21T11:01:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T15:01:28","slug":"stick-to-baseball-52116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/21\/stick-to-baseball-52116\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 5\/21\/16."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first attempt <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1R8Jqoy\" target=\"_blank\">to project this year&#8217;s first-round picks<\/a> went up on Wednesday; I&#8217;ll do this again three times before the draft, with the next one coming after Memorial Day. Earlier in the week, I did my annual ten-year lookback pieces, one on <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1OvRXlC\" target=\"_blank\">redrafting the 2006 first round<\/a> and the other on <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/22dELcU\" target=\"_blank\">the first-rounders from that year who didn&#8217;t work out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I held my regular <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1YFFhyh\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday, and have a new game review up at <em>Paste<\/em> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1TiaQKQ\" target=\"_blank\">light family-friendly card game Zany Penguins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all of you who&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\" target=\"_blank\">signed up for my newsletter<\/a>. I send a note more or less whenever I post new content somewhere, and usually add a little story or extra content too.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A longtime reader of mine, Travis, has an unfortunate story that he shared with me: His newborn daughter is already in hospice care after a bout of meningitis that hit after she was born at 27 weeks. The full story is on <A href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/emmafox\" target=\"_blank\">their GoFundMe page<\/a>; I donated and encourage you to do the same.<\/li>\n<li>Amazing longread from the <em>Atlantic<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2016\/06\/a-reasonable-doubt\/480747\/\" target=\"_blank\">the false certainty we get from DNA results in criminal cases<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Great blog post on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/publichealth\/2016\/05\/16\/public-health-takes-on-anti-vaccine-propaganda-damage-done-challenges-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\">the challenges of fighting vaccine-denial propaganda<\/a>. I guess the good news is that the film <em>Vaxxed<\/em> has gained no traction outside of its core, cult-like audience.<\/li>\n<li>This piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/sex-love\/features\/a19849\/dating-as-a-childfree-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\">on dating from a woman who does not want children<\/a> has one really infuriating passage, about men who tried to impregnate her against her wishes. In the UK, that&#8217;s considered rape, but in the U.S. I don&#8217;t believe it is.<\/li>\n<li>As yet another sports \u2026 uh, figure? \u2026 used the term &#8220;pansy&#8221; this week to describe baseball without broken limbs and bloody faces, I thought I&#8217;d link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepansyproject.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">The Pansy Project<\/a>, in which a gay artist plants a single pansy at the sites of homophobic comments or attacks, joining with the recipient in a sort of show of strength. &#8220;Pansy,&#8221; by the way, has referred to either a gay man or an overly effeminate one for over a hundred years. <\/li>\n<li>The <em>Washington Post<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/lifestyle\/walk-this-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">oral history of the making of Run-DMC&#8217;s &#8220;Walk This Way&#8221;<\/a> is a must read for anyone who remembers the impact that song had on the musical culture of the day. It&#8217;s surprising and disturbing for me to hear cries of racism at MTV; I grew up in about as white a town as you&#8217;ll find on the eastern seaboard, and when MTV aired anything by black artists that wasn&#8217;t adult contemporary crap, I devoured it. Rap, Prince and his various proteg&eacute;es, Living Colour, it didn&#8217;t matter. If it was novel, I was interested.<\/li>\n<li>Also from <em>WaPo<\/em>, from March, the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/style\/2016\/03\/17\/the-violin-thief\/\" target=\"_blank\">a violin prodigy who stole a Stradivarius<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>An ethics professor at Yale and major figure in the social justice movement in academia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/katiejmbaker\/yale-ethics-professor?utm_term=.bm0j95GdK#.me9xY3B42\" target=\"_blank\">stands credibly accused of sexual harassment<\/a>. And Yale hasn&#8217;t done much to stop him.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>New Yorker<\/em> takes a serious look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/05\/30\/james-okeefe-accidentally-stings-himself\" target=\"_blank\">the buffoon James O&#8217;Keefe<\/a>, and what his brand of negative campaigning means for both sides in the 2016 Presidential election. (Hint: Nothing good for democracy.)<\/li>\n<li>Yes, it&#8217;s about a colleague, but I still enjoyed Josh Levin&#8217;s piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/sports\/sports_nut\/2016\/05\/espn_s_zach_lowe_is_america_s_best_sports_writer.html\" target=\"_blank\">why Zach Lowe is the best sportswriter in America<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A rare bit of positive news in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/hundreds-of-antibiotics-built-from-scratch\/\" target=\"_blank\">the fight against antibiotic resistance<\/a>, thanks to a five-year experiment in building such molecules from scratch rather than modifying existing ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first attempt to project this year&#8217;s first-round picks went up on Wednesday; I&#8217;ll do this again three times before the draft, with the next one coming after Memorial Day. Earlier in the week, I did my annual ten-year lookback pieces, one on redrafting the 2006 first round and the other on the first-rounders from [&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":[190,261,799,870],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-rap","tag-science","tag-stick-to-baseball","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","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=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}