Your Mid-Week Experiment
Great things to read and listen to, but the TV recommendation is more of a warning
Reactions to last weekend’s essay were all over the map. If you didn’t read it yet, my point was that a liberal, rational mind is vulnerable to discounting the untrue as irrelevant and to give the factual undue weight. This is leading Democrats to “prove their case” in Senate races, inadvertently signaling to Republicans that deeply flawed candidates share traits in common with Donald Trump. Basically, we’re making these idiots more appealing to Republican voters.
The answers to @TxWomenRock are yes and in my head.
You’re welcome, Shayna?
Let’s get to it!
Leading off, my aunt Fay has a work of art in the Metropolitan Museum of by-god Art in New York City. I don’t care if your auntie is Beyoncé. My aunt is cooler than your aunt. (faystanford.com)
Smartest thing I’ve read in a while —> “What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture” (The Atlantic)
Forget the Alamo is an issue in the race for Texas Land Commissioner. (Dallas Morning News)
I’m late to the Smino party, but I showed up in time for Luv 4 Rent. Fun stuff.
This one left a mark. “An American Girl” (Washington Post)
The New York Times has a video game where you can be the ump and call balls and strikes. It’s even better than I’m making it sound.
Ghost Funk Orchestra’s A New Kind of Love makes me want to host a dinner party just so I can play this album.
Teaching Texas is a deeply researched look into how conservatives have been working the refs in public education for decades.
If you like badly written bundles of confusion about trauma inflicted on boys, you should watch Showtime’s American Gigolo. Also, you should unsubscribe to this newsletter. Oof, what a mess.
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