Your Mid-Week Experiment
What’s better than the paperback release of Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth? On sale no less? Well, how about the fact that after almost two weeks, your boy finally tested negative. I’m back at work, wearing pants and everything.
Let’s get to it:
WFH means working longer but getting less done. (U of Chicago study)
Should we get rid of opinion pieces? (Nieman Reports)
Language is a virus. (Cormac McCarthy)
“If the plastics industry is following the tobacco industry’s playbook, it may never admit to the failure of plastics recycling.” (The Atlantic)
You can donate to the families of the Uvalde victims through the school district’s foundation. (Robb School Memorial Fund)
I had no idea that women over 50 are such a huge part of the electorate. (The 19th*)
This profile of a Mill Valley NIMBY activist could have been written about Austin. (The New York Times)
Monica Hesse is all you need to read on the Depp-Heard trial. (Washington Post)
Mimi Swartz’s second take on Greg Abbott deserves your attention. (Texas Monthly)
Patrick Wilson is a reliable economic indicator that some studio is about to look around $100 million. Moonfall is horribly bad.
Infinite makes Moonfall look like Moonlight. It’s aggressively and confusingly bad.
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