Monday Medley

What we read while demanding Indonesia refund our concert tickets…

• So that whole Facebook IPO thing turned out to be a real disaster, huh? With lawsuits and everything. Meanwhile, can Google beat Facebook at social networking?

• A GQ roundtable of TV’s most respected showrunners.

• Former Chief Justice Rehnquist tried to publish a novel. Former Chief Justice Burger wasn’t fond of female journalists. While you’re at it, read some other very interesting historical tidbits about Supreme Court justices at Kyle Graham’s new blog.

• In honor of Bob Dylan’s birthday, a collection of old Times articles about him.

• President Obama wants to extend his limitless power to use drones, but perhaps local governments can restrict drone surveillance. In other drone-related news, yet another article detailing the bipartisan consensus on foreign policy.

• Grantland breaks down Marc Maron’s WTF podcast.

• An elaborate marriage proposal.

• What has happened to the public intellectual in America?

• Slate defends Dharun Ravi’s sentence in the Tyler Clementi case.

• Phil Hartman died 14 years ago today. Our tribute.

Monday Medley

What we read while believers got their comeuppance…

• With the end of television season, New York Magazine published a “showrunners” issue, including interviews with Dan Harmon of Community, Louis C.K. of Louie, and Amy Poehler of Parks and Recreation. Another Parks & Rec star talks about his most famous television role. Meanwhile, the show’s co-creator, Michael Schur, talked to Alan Sepinwall about the show.

• This 1993 profile of Lenny Dykstra was a watershed piece of sports writing that now seems eerily prescient.

• Hendrik Hertzberg makes an insightful point about Obama’s tiff with Netanyahu. Also in the New Yorker, some musings on the ominous possibilities of the Bradley Manning case.

• A profile of Facebook’s less-famous COO.

• Legal writing superstar Bryan Garner has released interviews he had with eight Supreme Court justices on legal writing. District Court Judge Weinstein, on the other hand, should not be offering writing tips after his 400-page sentencing opinion.

• A famous fellow Duke alum talks about being a Cameron Crazie.

• Black & white pictures of New York City never get old. Nor do the vocals of Beatles’ songs: here’s Paul McCartney’s isolated vocal of Helter Skelter.