{"id":9832,"date":"2023-03-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2023-03-10T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T18:18:15","slug":"stick-to-baseball-3-11-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/11\/stick-to-baseball-3-11-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 3\/11\/23."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nothing new at the Athletic this week, although I should have 2-3 coming up this week as my travels continue. I did hold a <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/41Ylp0N\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Paste, I <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3kY5IpP\">reviewed the game Gartenbau<\/a>, which combines very simple rules with tight decisions that make it a real challenge to play it well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On The Keith Law Show this week, I had my annual Oscars preview episode with Chris Crawford. You can listen and subscribe via <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-keith-law-show\/id1499877854\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SpotKlawPod\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/show\/the-keith-law-show\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3s1basB\">amazon<\/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was going to send another issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\">my free email newsletter<\/a> this week but got tied up with some other writing (board game stuff, actually), so it\u2019s still on my to-do list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Longreads first: <em>WIRED <\/em>has the story of the takedown of a former Iraqi translator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/on-the-trail-of-the-fentanyl-king\/\">who became a major fentanyl dealer in the U.S.<\/a> and is now serving a 30-year sentence in federal prison.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is trying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/23622299\/ron-desantis-first-amendment-press-new-york-times-v-sullivan\">to strip the press of its First Amendment rights<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The rash of anti-trans bills across the south and Midwest are the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2023\/03\/anti-trans-transgender-health-care-ban-legislation-bill-minors-children-lgbtq\/\">a network of religious-right groups<\/a> that operated in secret while pushing their bigoted agenda, according to emails between those groups and South Dakota state Rep. Fred Deutsch (R) obtained by <em>Mother Jones<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ProPublica has more information on billionaire Leonard Leo\u2019s new plan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/leonard-leo-teneo-videos-documents\">to try to \u201ccrush liberal dominance\u201d in American politics and culture<\/a>. He\u2019s considered the main architect of the strategy that gave conservatives a 6-3 Supreme Court majority and control of much of the federal judiciary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>My wife and I watched the Oscar-nominated animated short <em>My Year of Dicks<\/em>, which is very funny and sweet, which led us down the rabbit hole of its writer Pamela Ribon, including <a href=\"https:\/\/pamie.com\/2012\/11\/how-i-might-have-just-become-the-newest-urban-legend\/\">this hilarious 2011 post<\/a> from her now-defunct blog about how she might have become a new urban legend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Walgreens won\u2019t sell abortion pills <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/03\/04\/1161143595\/walgreens-abortion-pill-mifepristone-republican-threat-legal-action\">in states that merely threatened legal action<\/a>, even though the medication is still legal in those locations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Failed actor turned conservative talking head Michael Knowles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/cpac-speaker-transgender-people-eradicated-1234690924\/\">called for transgender people to be \u201ceradicated\u201d<\/a> in a speech at the far-right convention CPAC this week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>All of the rhetoric you\u2019re seeing against trans people right now <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1632867608759517184.html\">was previously used against gays\/lesbians<\/a> by the same sort of Christianist activists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A girls basketball team in Hoover, Alabama, the host city for the SEC baseball tournament, was forced to play in a boys\u2019 rec league if they wanted to continue to use city facilities. When they subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2023\/03\/hoover-girls-denied-basketball-trophy-after-winning-championship-against-boys-im-sorry-you-dont-count.html?utm_source=pocket_saves\">won the league\u2019s tournament, they were denied the trophy<\/a>, which was then given to the boys\u2019 team that finished second, because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/birmingham\/2023\/03\/hoover-basketball-trophy-not-a-decision-based-on-gender-mother-of-player-says.html\">they are a \u2018competitive\u2019 team<\/a> playing in a recreational league.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An anti-vaxxer nurse in Spain is in court, accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/03\/03\/anti-vaccine-nurse-taken-to-court-in-spain-accused-of-faking-childrens-jabs\">faking vaccinations of children<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>After a woman went on a racist tirade in a pizzeria near Philly, TikTok vigilantes tried to identify her, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/pennsylvania\/women-misidentified-hatboro-pizzeria-racist-incident-rita-bellew-harassment-doxxing-20230308.html?clickHeader=opening-note&amp;clickText=pursuit-of-justice-goes-rogue&amp;et_rid=695481023&amp;int_promo=newsletter&amp;list_name=DE08_Daily_Morning_Newsletter&amp;sfmc_id=0031U00002Bf76IQAR&amp;sub_source=daily_morning_newsletter&amp;utm_source=pocket_saves\">instead targeted three innocent women instead<\/a>, leading to widespread harassment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From January 2022: Ashli Babbitt, who some right-wingers want you to believe was a martyr, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/ashli-babbitt-jan-6-insurrectionist-portrayed-as-martyr-by-some-had-violent-past\">had a history of violent behavior<\/a> prior to her participation in the January 6<sup>th<\/sup> insurrection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Witnesses at Guantanamo Bay recalled <a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2023\/03\/ron-desantis-force-feedings-guantanamo-bay-laughing\/\">Ron DeSantis laughing while prisoners there were tortured<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Utah legislators have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/utah-legislators-vote-fix-medical-practice-law-sexual-assault-survivors\">voted to change the law<\/a> that made it nearly impossible for victims of sexual assault by doctors to sue their attackers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/171025\/tennessee-house-bill-gutting-marriage-equality\">Tennessee House passed a bill gutting marriage equality<\/a>, possibly allowing elected officials to decline to issue a license to a couple for any reason. The state\u2019s Republicans also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/columnist\/2023\/03\/05\/tennessee-ban-drag-shows-republican-attack-lgbtq\/11393431002\/?utm_source=pocket_saves\">passed a law banning drag shows<\/a>, which is nothing more than performative bigotry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing new at the Athletic this week, although I should have 2-3 coming up this week as my travels continue. I did hold a Klawchat on Thursday. For Paste, I reviewed the game Gartenbau, which combines very simple rules with tight decisions that make it a real challenge to play it well. 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