{"id":8152,"date":"2020-01-04T11:46:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T16:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2020-01-04T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T18:27:25","slug":"stick-to-baseball-1-4-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/04\/stick-to-baseball-1-4-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 1\/4\/20."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy New Year! I skipped last week since it was the holidays and I was offline quite a bit, but in the last couple of weeks I had a bunch of year-end board game posts, including <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2Exg3Qw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"my top 10 games of 2019 (opens in a new tab)\">my top 10 games of 2019<\/a> for <em>Paste<\/em>, my <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2M6SpOX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"best games of the year by category (opens in a new tab)\">best games of the year by category<\/a> for Vulture, and <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2Qqorqx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the top 8 board game apps of 2019 (opens in a new tab)\">the top 8 board game apps of 2019<\/a> for Ars Technica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"free email newsletter (opens in a new tab)\">free email newsletter<\/a> will return on Monday, time and health (I&#8217;m sick yet again) permitting. My second book, <em>The Inside Game<\/em>, will be out on April 21st and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"is available for pre-order (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062942722\/the-inside-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">is available for pre-order<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>One longread this week, from the <em>Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s best longreads of the year: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Time management is making us miserable (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/dec\/22\/why-time-management-is-ruining-our-lives\" target=\"_blank\">Time management is making us miserable<\/a>.<\/li><li>Figure skater Gracie Gold is working her way back to competition after a long fight with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"depression and an eating disorder (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/25\/sports\/gracie-gold-figure-skating-.html?action=click&amp;module=Well&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;section=Sports&amp;login=smartlock&amp;auth=login-smartlock\" target=\"_blank\">depression and an eating disorder<\/a>.<\/li><li>One of the biggest funders of anti-vaccine groups <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"has made millions selling &quot;natural&quot; health products (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2019\/10\/15\/fdc01078-c29c-11e9-b5e4-54aa56d5b7ce_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">has made millions selling &#8220;natural&#8221; health products<\/a>. Joseph Mercola has also been fined by the FDA for making false health claims, and has promoted all kinds of pseudoscience on his site for over 20 years.<\/li><li>Joan Walsh writes about &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"this fucking decade (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/decade-politics-both-sides\/\" target=\"_blank\">this fucking decade<\/a>&#8221; for <em>The Nation<\/em>: &#8220;The last decade showed that the United States can be dramatically changed by a minority of people seized by grievance, convinced that they\u2019re the real victims, and determined to get revenge.&#8221;<\/li><li>The rivers and beaches of Guatemala are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"filling with trash, especially plastic (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/10\/27\/plastic-pollution-guatemala\/\" target=\"_blank\">filling with trash, especially plastic<\/a>, emblematic of a global problem with plastic waste.<\/li><li>An <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Alabama woman murdered by her former partner (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/opinion\/2019\/12\/with-her-death-so-died-a-piece-of-every-womans-dream-for-a-more-just-society.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama woman murdered by her former partner<\/a> is another example why the NRA&#8217;s choice to kill the Violence Against Women Act will have deadly real-world consequences.<\/li><li>A study found that 39% of respondents in eight European countries <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"would like to live in a world where chemical substances don't exist (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2019\/12\/23\/study-finds-almost-40-percent-of-people-in-eight-european-nations-would-like-to-live-in-a-world-where-chemical-substances-dont-exist\/\" target=\"_blank\">would like to live in a world where chemical substances don&#8217;t exist<\/a>. Good luck with that.<\/li><li>The search for new antibiotic drugs is hitting another roadblock: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"startups trying to develop these compounds are going bankrupt (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/25\/health\/antibiotics-new-resistance.html\" target=\"_blank\">startups trying to develop these compounds are going bankrupt<\/a>.<\/li><li>Congress appears on the verge of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"letting a program designed to help stop the next pandemic expire (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/a-program-protecting-us-from-deadly-pandemic-is-about-to-expire\/2019\/12\/27\/7c216c26-2280-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">letting a program designed to help stop the next pandemic expire<\/a>, likely because the GOP doesn&#8217;t want to spend money on anything but war.<\/li><li>I was obsessed with the periodic table when I was a kid, so of course I enjoyed this <em>New Yorker<\/em> piece on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the search for larger and larger (and yet incredibly unstable) elements (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/science\/elements\/the-histories-hidden-in-the-periodic-table\" target=\"_blank\">the search for larger and larger (and yet incredibly unstable) elements<\/a>.<\/li><li><em>GQ<\/em> interviewed <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Michael Caine about The Muppet Christmas Carol (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/michael-caine-muppet-christmas-carol-interview\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Caine about <em>The Muppet Christmas Carol<\/em><\/a>.<\/li><li>Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"signed letters authored by the Pebble Mining Company (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskapublic.org\/2019\/12\/20\/pebble-foes-appalled-dunleavy-sent-a-letter-the-mining-company-wrote-for-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">signed letters authored by the Pebble Mining Company<\/a> favorable to the company&#8217;s mining efforts in his state.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The U.S. held off on punitive tariffs against Argentina (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/trump-argentina-trademarks\/\" target=\"_blank\">The U.S. held off on punitive tariffs against Argentina<\/a> while the country reviewed two trademarks for Trump&#8217;s personal business.<\/li><li>Sacha Baron Cohen gave an incredible speech to the Anti-Defamation League on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the failure of social media giants to regulate hate speech and fake news on their sites (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nowthisnews\/status\/1198001458773450752\" target=\"_blank\">the failure of social media giants to regulate hate speech and fake news on their sites<\/a>.<\/li><li>Capstone Games has really carved out a niche for itself   for high-end games, many of them imported from Europe, including the popular train game Irish Gauge, which they imported and released in the U.S. in 2019. They just announced the follow-up game, <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/3a615b981a1d\/capstone-games-announces-ride-the-rails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ride the Rails, will be released on July 1st (opens in a new tab)\">Ride the Rails, will be released on July 1st<\/a>, when Irish Gauge will also return to stores.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! I skipped last week since it was the holidays and I was offline quite a bit, but in the last couple of weeks I had a bunch of year-end board game posts, including my top 10 games of 2019 for Paste, my best games of the year by category for Vulture, and [&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":[550,1083,76,113,190,961,824,907,870,940,807],"class_list":["post-8152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alaska","tag-board-game-news","tag-chemistry","tag-environment","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-pseudoscience","tag-social-media","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-the-swamp","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152","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=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8158,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions\/8158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}