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My First Time: A Political Novice Runs for Office

My First Time: A Political Novice Runs for Office

My First Time: A Political Novice Runs for Office

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I ran for Congress in Maryland’s 8th District because I thought the government was spending too much money. I had no idea how much I’d be spending, or what I’d have to show for it when the ballots were counted. My rookie stats — 2,242 votes, 15.25 percent of the total — are a matter of public record, although the public’s not exactly clamoring for a look-see. Which could be the harshest lesson from all of this.

Source: Washington Post
Published: Dec 5, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,173 words)

The Time We Have Is Growing Short

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Published: May 25, 2010
Length: 11 minutes (2,896 words)

Stephen Hawking: How to build a time machine

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All you need is a wormhole, the Large Hadron Collider or a rocket that goes really, really fast

Source: Daily Mail
Published: May 3, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,138 words)

Untimely

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What was at stake in the spat between Henry Luce and Harold Ross?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Apr 19, 2010
Length: 22 minutes (5,687 words)

A Bad Morning at The New York Times

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On “My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at The New York Times,” by Gerald M. Boyd

Published: Apr 29, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,703 words)

Sometimes The Bear Eats You: Confessions of a Sportswriter

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In those halcyon days there was still a lot of booze in journalism. Writers were understood to be two-fisted drinkers. You wrote a story, you wrote a chapter; then you went out and bellied up to the bar. When I was The Kid, I was regaled with tales of the sportswriter who covered for his tosspot buddy by filing a story for him; the punch line was invariably that the sober writer’s editor called him the next day and asked him why he couldn’t write as well as his rival—when, of course, he had written the rival’s story himself.

Published: Mar 29, 2010
Length: 23 minutes (5,956 words)

One time at D&D camp…

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Author: Mj Harnish
Source: Gaming Brouhaha
Published: May 19, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,310 words)

Closing Time

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The History Of America Is The History Of The Automobile Industry— Which Is Far Older And Stranger Than You Might Imagine.

Author: Rich Cohen
Source: The Believer
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 42 minutes (10,520 words)

The Time I Accidentally Killed a Horse

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A Confession

Source: The Stranger
Published: Jul 21, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,563 words)