{"id":9976,"date":"2023-09-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9976"},"modified":"2023-09-08T22:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T02:00:22","slug":"stick-to-baseball-9-9-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/09\/stick-to-baseball-9-9-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 9\/9\/23."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nothing new this week other than two contributions to headlines on the callups of <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3Lc4mBA\">Jordan Lawlar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3Et28tO\">Evan Carter<\/a>, but I\u2019ll be back next week with the players I got wrong column. I did hold my first <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/462gfBZ\">Klawchat<\/a> in ages, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On The Keith Law Show this week, I spoke with Jonathan Abrams, <em>New York Times<\/em> reported and author of the 2022 book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2960\/9781984825131\">The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop<\/a><\/em>, which comes out in paperback on October 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. 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>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Longreads first: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/31\/magazine\/dungeons-dragons-death-row.html\">The Dungeons and Dragons Players of Death Row<\/a>,\u201d from the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2019s Keri Blakinger, is one of the best things I\u2019ve read this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> has an expos\u00e9 on Anti-Flag lead singer Justin Sane, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/anti-flag-justin-sane-1234817170\/\">who now stands accused of rape by at least thirteen women<\/a>. Anti-Flag and Sane (born Justin Geever) himself made feminism and progressive ideology a core part of their public images.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Peter Thiel-backed startup is supposedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2023\/09\/praxis-society-city-dryden-brown-peter-thiel\/\">planning to found its own libertarian city-state<\/a> \u2026 somewhere, I guess. Fyre City?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vulture exposes the corruption behind Rotten Tomatoes\u2019 algorithm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/rotten-tomatoes-movie-rating.html\">as studios and publicists have paid small-time reviewers<\/a>, who are often inexplicably included in the site\u2019s calculations, to post positive reviews or withhold negative ones. I\u2019m not included in RT\u2019s metrics and I\u2019m not paid by any studios or publicists, so you can always trust my reviews, even if they\u2019re not any good!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Parents of trans kids who spoke to the <em>New York Times\u2019 <\/em>Azeen Ghorayshi spoke out against the reporter and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.assignedmedia.org\/breaking-news\/you-betrayed-us-azeen-parents-of-trans-youth-reeling-after-speaking-to-the-nyt\">how they felt used and misled by her actions<\/a>. Ghorayshi wrote a fairly uncritical piece about the so-called whistleblower at a St. Louis clinic for trans kids, but didn\u2019t accurately reflect the sentiments of the parents she spoke to, while the whistleblower appears to have fabricated or inflated most of her claims.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Regulatory changes may spell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/airbnb-ban-new-york-city\/\">the end of Airbnb and similar short-term rentals in New York City<\/a>. There\u2019s some evidence that these sites are driving down housing stock in already depressed urban supplies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Warming oceans due to climate change are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/a-flesh-eating-bacterium-is-creeping-north-as-oceans-warm\/\">allowing the flesh-eating bacterium <em>Vibrio vulnificus <\/em>to expand its habitat further north<\/a>, killing three people in the New York area this summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Florida town of Mount Dora established a program where businesses can declare themselves safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people and display a decal in their window to that effect. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/national\/2023\/09\/02\/gop-lawmakers-take-aim-at-lgbtq-safe-places-program-in-small-florida-town\/?utm_source=pocket_saves\">Several Florida Republicans are vowing to stop the program<\/a>, because they are apparently opposed to the First Amendment, or too stupid to understand why it applies here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/goodreads-is-terrible\/\">Goodreads sucks<\/a>. Even best-selling author R.F. Kuang says so \u2013 okay, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/jul\/25\/goodreads-is-right-to-divide-opinions-wrong-to-boil-them-down\">sort of<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Christian nationalist commentator Matt Walsh, who doesn\u2019t understand the biology of gender, decided to dunk on a single woman for a Tiktok video about her Saturday routines, and even the <em>National Review <\/em>said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-shaming-of-julia-mazur-was-a-bit-much\/\">it was a bit much<\/a>. Walsh\u2019s view is that women exist solely for procreation, so it\u2019s unsurprising that Julia Mazur\u2019s unmarried, childless lifestyle would be so confusing to him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One of the only pediatric cardiologists in the state of Louisiana is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/09\/01\/us\/jake-kleinmahon-doctor-leaves-louisiana-reaj\">leaving the state because of its anti-LGBTQ+ legislation<\/a>. Well well well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Kids Online Safety Act isn\u2019t about protecting kids, at least not for its Republican backers \u2013 it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erininthemorning.com\/p\/senator-admits-kids-online-safety\">about blocking LGBTQ+ content online<\/a>, according to sponsor Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R). It has broad bipartisan support, however, and I contacted both of Delaware\u2019s Senators to voice my opposition, even though both are sponsors of the bill as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Two Texas billionaires who\u2019ve made their fortunes from fracking are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/sep\/05\/texas-fracking-billionaire-brothers-prageru-daily-wire\">using their gains to fund climate denial and conservative indoctrination sites like PragerU<\/a> and the Daily Wire. Florida has now approved the use of PragerU materials in its K-12 schools. The <em>Guardian<\/em> has more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/sep\/06\/prageru-climate-change-denier-republican-donors\">the lies and misinformation of PragerU<\/a>, which is just doing what its backers pay it for.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prison officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/danelo-cavalcante-search-command-center-chester-county-longwood-gardens-20230908.html\">fired the guard who didn&#8217;t see Danelo Cavalcante escape<\/a> from Chester County Prison by crabwalking up two walls, leading to a manhunt for the convicted murderer that is now entering day ten. Another inmate escaped the same way back in May, so I&#8217;m unclear why the guard is getting the blame rather than the officials who didn&#8217;t think to, say, use anti-climb paint to prevent a recurrence? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>South Korean teachers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-66655572\">protesting after one of their own committed suicide<\/a> due to extensive bullying by her students\u2019 parents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Astrophysicist Katie Mack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yg0LT3n4mYY\">uses a baseball analogy to explain quantum tunneling<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing new this week other than two contributions to headlines on the callups of Jordan Lawlar and Evan Carter, but I\u2019ll be back next week with the players I got wrong column. I did hold my first Klawchat in ages, though. On The Keith Law Show this week, I spoke with Jonathan Abrams, New York [&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":[828,128,1112,190,961,1065,971,1268,1169,870,1239],"class_list":["post-9976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-florida","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-louisiana","tag-metoo","tag-misinformation","tag-south-korea","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-trans-rights","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976","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=9976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9979,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions\/9979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}