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.
Let’s get right to it:
Kansas Put a Bounty on Trans People. In which M. Gessen draws specific and convincing parallels between Kansas and Nazi Germany while avoiding hyperbole. (gift link)
This recipe for stone fruit caprese is gonna get made again. (free link)
I’m Not Going to Lie About My Neck. Per Molly Jong-Fast, a lot of women are getting plastic surgery and then claiming they’re just getting more sleep. (gift link)
Here’s what happens to your brain when you stop drinking alcohol. It’s not great, folks. This piece convinced me to cut way, way down. (gift link)
A Naked Bicycle Protest Is Also a Party. Is That Bad? The most-Portland, Ore. article doesn’t exi… (gift link)
Wish this would have been better since it was based on a true story but played for broad (if not big) laughs.
Better-than-descent watch, but it felt like it wanted to let a bad guy off the hook for the sake of closing a circle. Also, Andy’s romance was completely unnecessary except to show that she had grown up enough to work through romantic conflict. Both of these nits felt of a kind, as if someone wrote it into the script because it made sense and not because the story demanded it.
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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.