Reading boosts empathy, but sympathy for the devil too - Globe and Mail
21 May 2012, 4:45 pm
How then do we explain brilliantly inventive misanthropic grouches like Maurice Sendak, V.S. Naipaul and Michel Houellebecq? Furthermore, there’s a dangerous corollary to the idea that stories can affect your morality – surely it means that they can ...

Yes .... no .... maybe - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
17 May 2012, 10:01 am
And here I thought Bob Knight was the king of postgame grouches. Then I watched this. And I realized John Tortorella had done the seemingly impossible by wrestling the coveted jerkwater title away from Coach. To paraphrase (sarcastically ...

Facebook IPO Requires Leap of Faith: Author  - CNBC
16 May 2012, 11:00 am
In others, it has become so dominant that it could easily run into Microsoft grouches of this kind look unlikely to derail the Facebook juggernaut as it steams towards its debut on the Nasdaq market. The excitement may well send the stock well above the ...

Internal Affairs: Readers take a whack at city sign -- and guess who gets lopped off - San Jose Mercury News
13 May 2012, 7:50 am
If that's the case, then it's mighty orderly under the Big Top -- and not because the judge or bailiff are grouches, as can be the case. Credit goes to three parties -- Judge Andrea Y. Bryan, who sets the tone with her impeccably courteous ...

Where creativity blooms - The Canberra Times
12 May 2012, 7:08 am
In it, the writer Jonathan Rauch outed himself as an introvert - a member of one of the ''most misunderstood and aggrieved groups in America, possibly the world" - and asked we understand his kind are not anti-social grouches, who need a drink, Prozac or a ...