Beck & Tom Waits: A Conversation

There’s something maybe uncomfortable now to just hearing somebody’s voice in a room singing.’

Source: Beck.com
Published: Jul 1, 2009
Length: 22 minutes (5,658 words)

Jeb Bush: The Future of the Republican Party

With no obvious candidate to lead the Republican party (and one having just stepped down), some are looking to Jeb Bush. Which is news to him.

Source: Esquire
Published: Jul 28, 2009
Length: 22 minutes (5,658 words)

The Place of Women on the Court

In late February, three weeks after she had an operation for a recurrence of cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to Barack Obama’s first address to Congress. Given the circumstances, it wasn’t an event anyone expected her to attend. She went, she said, because she wanted the country to see that there was a woman on the Supreme Court.

Published: Jul 7, 2009
Length: 17 minutes (4,324 words)

How I lost my health insurance at the hairstylist’s

Author: Downtowner
Source: Daily Kos
Published: Jul 7, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,862 words)

The Malaise-Proofing of Michael Bloomberg

Dispensing with any elaborate pretense about being in a competitive re-election contest, Mr. Bloomberg’s handlers have begun to use the mayor’s public appearances to address what happens after 2009. Their political task: to figure out a way of avoiding the historic curse of the complacent, unfocused and regrettable third term.

Published: Jul 7, 2009
Length: 7 minutes (1,768 words)

The Real Quagmire in the Middle East

Published: Jul 7, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,535 words)

New York’s Indispensable Institution

The NYPD’s crime-fighting sparked the city’s economic revival and is essential to its future.

Source: City Journal
Published: Jul 28, 2009
Length: 16 minutes (4,192 words)

Michael Anthony Steele: Kids Screenwriter, Novelizationist, Ad Man

“It’s different for each age group. For example, one of the original Barney writers, Steve White, had a good piece of advice for writing for preschool kids and kids in general. He said, you can use all the vaudeville pratfalls and the oldest joke in the book on these kids because they’ve never seen it before, it’s brand new to them and it’s really funny to them. Stuff that we’d think was corny, and oh my gosh, that’s such an old joke or that’s such a bad joke, kids love it.”

Source: The Awl
Published: Jul 7, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,994 words)

The Social Network (Facebook Movie)

Source: ScriptShadow
Published: Jul 6, 2009
Length: 10 minutes (2,661 words)

Tom Williams: Hired By Apple at 14. His Full Story

I was recently in Vancouver Canada for a week, considering moving there, when my friend Ariel Hyatt said, “You have to meet this amazing guy Tom Williams. He got hired by Apple when he was only 14. I think the company had to, like, legally adopt him to do it. He’s a go-getter like you. Plus his wife, Jessie is an awesome country artist.”

Source: Sivers.org
Published: Jul 6, 2009
Length: 20 minutes (5,142 words)