by jstewardfree | Feb 5, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Alex Williams | Maybe it was because they had met on OkCupid. But when the dark-eyed musician with artfully disheveled hair asked Shani Silver, a social media and blog manager in Philadelphia, out on a “date” Friday night, she was expecting at least a drink, one on...
by jstewardfree | Jan 31, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Maria Bustillos | Here is the second and final post of this piece from The New Yorker | Once we are persuaded of the authenticity and quality of the author’s message, it remains for the reader either to contend or to submit. Moment by moment, an engaged reader will...
by jstewardfree | Jan 30, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Maria Bustillos, The New Yorker | The strange bliss of reading is mysterious even to those who are most susceptible to it. I’m not speaking here of the pleasures of learning, nor of those to be had from being drawn into an exciting story, but simply of the sensual...
by jstewardfree | Jan 28, 2013 | Grey Matter
The following is a Toronto Star report on a growing trend in the world of trendy college curriculums: sex studies. Gender studies is not what we refer to; we mean the study of sexual acts, usually the more perverse the better attended these classes are. We ask the...
by jstewardfree | Jan 26, 2013 | Grey Matter
By The Clapham Institute | “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity,” wrote George Orwell, who warned of governments resorting to “long words and exhausted idioms” to mask unsavory behavior. With Orwell in mind, you might want to see...
