Your 7/29 Experiment

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported, mid-week edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.

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Let’s get right to it:

Ken Paxton Now Has to Do the Unthinkable: Try. Pretty much nails the state of things. (free link)

The predictable disgrace of the White House Correspondents Dinner. In which Margaret Sullivan rips apart the specious reasons journalists gave for showing up to let Donald Trump yell at them for an hour at the WHCD. (free link)

‘An overnight success after 25 years? Delicious’: Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham on sexism, stunts and stardom at 51. Interesting to see the rough edges of this interview evolve. (free link)

Man charged for using phone’s ‘duress’ password to wipe data. Never wished I had an Android before reading this. h/t S (free link)

A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out. Good piece, irritating story. h/t S as well (free link)

Squirrel Leads Detroit Grounds Crew On Merry Chase. The Orioles-Tigers game on Monday night was not the greatest thing that happened at the ballpark. This was. (free link)

A Brief Exchange That Shows the Enormous Difference Between Trump and Obama. If Sally Jenkins didn’t exist, we would have to invent her. Lovely stuff. (free link)

Watchable, and amiably forgettable.

They could have been a more serious, less silly movie, but it was a lot of fun.

Funny stuff.

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Buy the book Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick banned from the Bullock Texas History Museum: Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of the American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and myself.