Your Mid-Week Experiment

In which we learn that adolescent whales are weird teenagers

Hard to emphasize how much I enjoyed talking with Emi Nietfeld about her memoir, Acceptance: A Memoir. Check out the essay if you haven’t yet, and then buy the book. The typical American only reads four books a year, but you’re not typical, are you? You might not even be American. There’s no telling how many books you read a year! My god, you are so smart.

OK, let’s get to it.

Emi Nietfeld @eminietfeld

"We have this idea that forgiveness is this magic dust that people who have been wronged have, and it's their obligation to sprinkle that dust to make everything right.” Had a swell time talking, forgiveness, resilience + ACCEPTANCE with @JasStanford!

jasonstanford.substack.comThe fallacy of resilienceA conversation with Emi Nietfeld, author of “Acceptance: A Memoir”

“The lockout was the least of baseball’s problems” (George Will)

“Save baseball by changing its rules” (George Will)

Heidi Heidi @Bo_Beidi

Paul informed me this morning that 1) there are a couple teenage orcas in Europe who are knocking the rudders off sailboats. 2) This isn’t weird because teenage orcas go through weird trends/phases 3) that a few years ago the trend was to kill a fish AND WEAR IT ON THEIR HEAD.

“Why English is changing faster than you can say E-mail, e-mail, email” (Benjamin Dreyer)

Smart analysis here —> “Polls reveal Trump's FBI search bump” (Axios)

“How to make a sheet-pan dinner” (The New York Times)

“In 2022, it seems worth remembering that in 1831, lawmakers afraid that Black Americans exposed to the ideas in books and schools would claim the equality that was their birthright under the Declaration of Independence made sure their Black neighbors could not get an education.” (Letters from an American)

“What a loss, and what an embodiment of the politics of the era, that Sinema is unabashedly queer in a way that does so little to improve anyone’s life but her own.” (Nathan Kohrman)

Loot, in which Maya Rudolph plays the ex-wife of a bajillionaire, is a winning mix of sincere and comedic.

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