Guard 1: Did you watch the Rutgers game?
Guard 2: Of course!
Guard 1: Really?
Guard 2: No.
Overheard while exiting Firestone
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Did a Top Science Journal Publish a Creationist Paper?
Dumb logic and intelligent design in a recent Nature article.
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July
“By the eighth day words had begun to fail me. I thought in silent images. It was hot. We ate greedily, excessively, grilled meat on the bone, whole fish smiling up from the table, savory noodles prepared in cold sesame sauce with fresh cucumber. I sat around for hours after lunch feeling uncomfortably full.”
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True and False: Bay Area
A drug deal that wasn’t. A minister on mushrooms. Which is real, and which is fake?
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“Fact-Heavy and Exceedingly Vapid”: A Visit to the Bill Clinton Presidential Library
A shrine to Slick Willie and his presidential T-rex.
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Inevitable Acts: Ruminations on The Lady with the Pet Dog
Through Joyce Carol Oates, a Nass writer ponders the inexorable force of love.
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Letter from the Editors
We strive to be a democratic publication, one whose direction is shaped by our contributors more than our editorial staff. When we floated the idea for a sex issue, we received overwhelming enthusiasm from the Nass community. So we went ahead with it. Previous mastheads had done this—in 1988 and 2006. But those were…
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The Case Against Sex
“What about sex reduces the male brain to a pile of mush? Are these the leaders of the next generation? The very best of our future investment bankers and Raytheon interns? We’re doomed.”
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A Note on Dobbs v. Jackson and Brexit
What might Brexit teach us about the political ramifications of Dobbs v. Jackson?
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Sexter, Over Time
“I feel yucky, I said. I licked a fucking banana. We’ve all been there, my friend said, but I wasn’t so sure that he could relate to using a banana as a sensuous prop. I ate the banana since it was peeled already.”