Your Mid-Week Experiment
So about last weekend's essay...
Last weekend’s essay about James Talarico’s inclusive opposition to the Ten Commandments bill ended before yesterday, Tuesday, when the Public Education Committee passed it, 10-3, sending it to the full House where, if it comes up for a vote, will likely pass. Normally, I’d say that the Supreme Court would never let such an obvious violation of the Establishment Clause stand, but ha ha and hoo boy.
Anyway, there are other places to put our attention this week. Let’s get to it:
Here’s an easy recipe for shrimp a la plancha that was a big hit (The New York Times Cooking)
Proud of my friend Amy Spitalnick for standing up to Marjorie Taylor Greene (Huffington Post)
Fascinating article on how the very rich in the U.S. dress so you can’t tell what they’re wearing (Washington Post)
“Elon Musk Among the Anti-Semites: Criticizing George Soros is not inherently anti-Semitic. But casting him as an avatar of evil is.” h/t E.J. (Yair Rosenberg)
Sent this to a writer friend, who responded, “Makes me want to vomit” (Washington Post)
And that made me want to send him this one about R.F. Kuang’s new novel (The New York Times)
Required reading for knowing me—> “How the Orioles Became a Contender” (Jeff Passan, ESPN)
Also, this, though I’m not sure how Jon Meoli got through this without mentioning that Adley hugs (The Baltimore Banner)
Makes sense that a lot of Chinese-American girls are named Connie after Connie Chung, but it never occurred to me before reading this h/t E.H. (The New York Times)
A lady at work made this sourdough bread, and it’s in the break room right next to my office. Just sitting there, waiting for someone to eat it. Someone like me, you say? I mean, maybe? It’s so good. (Venison for Dinner)
“…that learning models have their place, and that place is not — and will never be, nor should it reasonably or ethically be considered to be — to serve as a replacement for human intuition, experience, sentience, or creativity.” h/t S (Josh Berthume)
“Robot” is a word a playwright made up to tell a story about our anxiety about machines replacing human labor (NPR)
Critics who didn’t like this movie do not like fun and deserve nothing good in life.
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