Your Mid-Week Experiment
It's moving day at The Experiment
Funny thing about the reaction to last weekend’s essay on Geronimo Rodriguez, the guy who went from a migrant worker to the White House to school board president only to be turned out of office on the same night he scored the biggest success of his career. Usually, when an essay lands especially well, readers say I did a good job. In this case, readers responded that Geronimo did especially well, and I have to agree with them.
By the time you read this, I’ll be behind the wheel of a U-Haul on the way to Dallas, where S and I are moving.
More on that later, but for now I’m leaving you with a lot of good stuff to read and listen to:
“Inside the Jan. 6 Committee: Power struggles, resignations and made-for-TV moments — the untold story of the most important congressional investigation in generations.” (Robert Draper)
“For Cassidy Hutchinson, ‘I don’t remember’ wasn’t good enough” (Ruth Marcus)
“Western sanctions on Russia are like the mills of God. They grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.” (Peter Coy)
“‘Wokeism’ is giving way to ‘bossism’ — the ascension of the C-Suite taking its power back from employees.” (New York Times)
“Does the Meaning of a Song Change Depending on Who Wrote It?” (Esau McCaulley)
“If you are fortunate enough to live a long life, your body will break down. And it is not only age that can have its way with our bodies.” (Nick Riggle)
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