Budding theocrat Roy Moore, removed from the bench for refusing to accept the separation of church and state (on gay marriage, displaying the Ten Commandments, and so on), now has a large lead in the Alabama Senate race to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions.Meanwhile, the federal government is sending beef jerky and cheese-flavored crackers to Puerto Rico and calling them meals.Chef Jose Andres has been working tirelessly in Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria devastated the island, serving nearly 1.5 million meals to hungry residents. Even now, he’s going to jail on child pornography charges, not on the dozens of sexual assaults he committed against mostly children. Victims of Michigan State & US Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar spoke up for 20 years, and no one did anything about it.Deadspin writer Lindsey Adler asks why this time would be any different from previous revelations of serial sexual abusers’ actions, like Bill Cosby just a year or so ago.Many writers have blamed her, or said she should be grateful to Weinstein, or argued she must have consented because she wasn’t injured. The media reaction in Italy to director/actress Asia Argento revealing that she was sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein has revealed how backwards the country is when it comes to women’s rights.The New Yorker looks at what a Mike Pence Presidency might look like, given his ultra-conservative views on pretty much every topic.Voting rights are under attack in most of the south and midwest despite a lack of any evidence of systemic voter fraud. Mother Jones argues that voter suppression tipped the scales in Wisconsin and possibly in the entire election.The National Review‘s Kevin Williamson weighs in on the “white minstrel show” that has replaced traditional, values-based conservatism with an opportunistic blend of populist anti-elitism and an abdication of personal responsibility.The drug industry lobbied Congress heavily to emasculate the DEA so they could sell more opioids, and Congressional Republicans (with the help of at least two Democrats) were more than happy to oblige, even as opioid addictions and deaths continue to surge.ProPublica investigates a new white supremacist group that espouses violence but isn’t on authorities’ radar, at least not yet, despite their involvement in multiple violent incidents.Meanwhile, Kiribati, an island nation in the central-south Pacific, may cease to exist due to climate change and rising water levels.Longreads first: Climate change is warming the Alaskan permafrost, affecting residents and potentially releasing an enormous amount of sequestered CO2 into the atmosphere, thus further accelerating global warming.I’ll be signing copies of Smart Baseball there on November 18th and plan to attend the entire event. The schedule for PAX Unplugged, a new boardgaming con to be held in Philadelphia in November, is now up. I also posted about a big boardgame app sale going on right now from Asmodee Digital. I reviewed the card/dice game Valeria and its new expansion here on Friday my next boardgame review for Paste will go up in early November. I wrote two scouting posts for Insiders from my week in the Arizona Fall League, which you can read here and here.
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