{"id":7149,"date":"2018-11-24T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T16:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=7149"},"modified":"2018-11-24T11:03:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T16:03:31","slug":"stick-to-baseball-11-24-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/24\/stick-to-baseball-11-24-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 11\/24\/18."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My one ESPN+ post this week <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2OThlIp\" target=\"_blank\">covered the James Paxton trade<\/a>, which included one of my favorite pitching prospects in the minors, lefty Justus Sheffield. I didn&#8217;t hold a chat this week due to the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to sign up for my <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\" target=\"_blank\">free email newsletter<\/a>, but you&#8217;re missing out on lots of words. <\/p>\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Longreads first: The best thing I read this week was this <em>Washington Post<\/em> article that tells two narratives in parallel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america\/2018\/11\/17\/edd44cc8-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?utm_term=.afd1162195e0\" target=\"_blank\">a liberal satirist who baits right-wingers with insane (fake) stories, and a retiree who believes all of it is true<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>New Yorker<\/em>&#8216;s Bill McKibben looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/11\/26\/how-extreme-weather-is-shrinking-the-planet\/amp\" target=\"_blank\">how climate change and its extreme weather effects are shrinking the planet<\/a>, reducing the habitable and arable land through rising sea levels, increasing temperatures, and water shortages. He also looks at the ongoing fight to &#8220;muddle&#8221; public opinion on climate change, spearheaded by Republican officials, oil change executives, and pollster Frank Luntz.<\/li>\n<li><em>WIRED<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/pricey-war-influence-your-instagram-feed\/\" target=\"_blank\">the shady business of paid influences on Instagram and Youtube<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>A survivor of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre in Guyana spoke to the BBC about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-46241372\" target=\"_blank\">surviving the cult and mass suicide, and living with that memory for the last four decades<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>An author complained that he had a hard time publishing his (apparently not very good) novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/your-new-boyfriend-this-terrible-novelist-who-couldnt-get-published-because-sexism-against-men\" target=\"_Blank\">because of sexism against men or something<\/a>. Wonkette tears his rather na\u00efve complaint to shreds. It&#8217;s hard to get a novel published unless you&#8217;re already published or otherwise famous, and gender bias or political correctness have nothing to do with that. <\/li>\n<li>A Vancouver, Washington, man broke Indian law and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wweek.com\/news\/2018\/11\/23\/vancouver-man-who-ventured-onto-forbidden-island-wrote-home-i-think-its-worth-it-to-declare-jesus-to-these-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">died while trying to &#8216;bring Jesus&#8217; to the North Sentinelese people<\/a>, one of the last uncontacted tribes on the planet. His questionable religious intentions aside, visiting an isolated population with all of your developed-world germs is unbefuckinglievably irresponsible. The natives likely have no antibodies for many of the pathogens he was carrying.<\/li>\n<li>A nurse working at a hospital in the path of the California wildfires <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-the-last-call-20181122-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">called her two daughters to say goodbye as the flames approached<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers may have discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-07334-9\" target=\"_blank\">evidence of somatic gene recombination in the human brain<\/a>, a process of retranscription that appears to occur in the brains of people with Alzheimer&#8217;s, although the authors were explicit that they can&#8217;t say this is a cause of the disease.<\/li>\n<li>One of the country&#8217;s largest oil refiners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/oil-refiner-andeavor-is-seven-figure-contributor-to-mcconnell-aligned-nonprofit\/\" target=\"_blank\">has donated over $1 million to Mitch McConnell&#8217;s dark-money group One Nation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In 2015, Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D) wrote a letter to defend the character of a judge who beat his wife badly enough for her to require reconstructive surgery on her face, saying that it was a one-time event and not the man she knew. Last weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/court-justice\/2018\/11\/the-many-important-people-who-vouched-for-wife-beater-and-former-judge-lance-mason.html\" target=\"_blank\">the judge stabbed his ex-wife to death<\/a>. The revelation appears to have ended Fudge&#8217;s bid to replace Nancy Pelosi as the lead Democrat in the House; it should also end her tenure in Congress. <\/li>\n<li>Seven women are suing Dartmouth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/15\/us\/dartmouth-professors-sexual-harassment.html\" target=\"_blank\">alleging serial harassment and sexual assault by three professors<\/a> in the psychology and brain sciences departments.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2018\/11\/19\/anti-vaccination-stronghold-nc-hit-with-states-worst-chickenpox-outbreak-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\">a chicken pox outbreak in very liberal Asheville, North Carolina<\/a>, a stronghold of anti-vaxxer morons.<\/li>\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2018\/11\/13\/measles_outbreak_orthodox_communiti.php\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s a measles outbreak among the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn<\/a>, thanks to a group calling itself Parents Teaching and Advocating for Children\u2019s Health that has been going to residents&#8217; homes and scaring parents with hoax stories about vaccines.<\/li>\n<li>The mother of a child who has survived cancer tweeted about <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1065153914100604928.html\" Target=\"_Blank\">what exposure to measles meant for her child during chemotherapy<\/a>, when her immune system was compromised.<\/li>\n<li>America&#8217;s new political backwater is Georgia, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2018\/11\/brian-kemps-win-in-georgia-tainted-by-voter-suppression-stacey-abrams\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Governor-elect oversaw his own election and purged over a million voters from rolls<\/a>, many of them persons of color. I have no idea why everyday Georgians are tolerating this subversion of their civil rights. <\/li>\n<li>A dark-money group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/a-mysterious-facebook-group-is-using-bernie-sanders-image-to-urge-democrats-to-vote-for-the-green-party\" target=\"_blank\">posted ads on Facebook, using Bernie Sanders&#8217; image, to encourage Democrats to defect to the Green Party<\/a> on election day. The group in question failed to file required paperwork with the FEC, and Facebook refused to remove the ads when Sen. Sanders&#8217; office requested that they do so. The group&#8217;s Facebook page is still active as of Friday night.<\/li>\n<li>Several companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/11\/20\/walmart-asks-hyde-smith-for-donation-back-because-of-hanging-outrage.html\" target=\"_blank\">have asked Republican Senate candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith to refund their contributions<\/a> after she joked about public hangings. She&#8217;ll face Mike Espy (D) in a runoff election on Tuesday in Mississippi, where African-Americans make up the largest percentage of the population of any of the fifty states.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Mississippi, federal judge Carlton Reeves <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/federal-judge-strikes-mississippi-abortion-ban-male-lawmakers-gaslighting-8fd5dd7d87be\/\" target=\"_blank\">struck down its abortion ban as unconstitutional, and he had some shit on his mind<\/a> about the &#8220;pure gaslighting&#8221; of state legislators over this law and the state&#8217;s long history of oppression of women and minorities.<\/li>\n<li>Mumbai-born Garima Amora, a chef in Bangkok, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-46219876\" target=\"_blank\">became the first Indian woman to win a Michelin star<\/a> this month for her work at the restaurant Gaa.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Our Dear Leader made some utterly ridiculous statements about Babe Ruth \u2013 everything short of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qoLEaQyvch0?t=62\" target=\"_blank\">calling him a black man<\/a> \u2013 but <em>Toronto Star<\/em> writer Daniel Dale <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1064569070966722562.html\" target=\"_Blank\">was there to set the record straight<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My one ESPN+ post this week covered the James Paxton trade, which included one of my favorite pitching prospects in the minors, lefty Justus Sheffield. I didn&#8217;t hold a chat this week due to the holiday. You don&#8217;t have to sign up for my free email newsletter, but you&#8217;re missing out on lots of words. 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