Of Novels and Novelty Acts

According to reviewers, Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit From the Goon Squad is "€œvirtuosic,"€ "€œshape shifting,"€ "€œstartlingly new,"€ and it "€œturns the ...

Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger

Affairs, Public and Private

It has been quite a month for philandering. One would be mistaken for thinking Senator John Ensign's abrupt resignation was the scandal of the moment. Instead, with news of one ...

Bring Us the Head of Ronald McDonald

Among the thousands of wailing grievance groups the progressive left nurtures, enables, coddles, and waters, "€œfood activists"€ tend to be among the most humorlessly ...

Decapitation

The heads keep rollin"€™, rollin"€™, rollin"€™ all over the world. So far in May: • A Mexican deputy prison governor's decapitated body was among eight headless ...

Botticelli's Venus

The 12-Step Plan to Restore American Femininity

Like firing a fetus from a slingshot, feminism catapulted women out of the kitchen and onto the streets, where they were invited to do anything a man can do"€”but better. This ...

Raffaele Bendandi

Rumblings in Europe

Last week the global media was all abuzz with ridicule over those backward Italian peasants"€“to the media, a peasant is anyone possessing less than $1 million Euros. It seems ...

Gypsy

The Recently Retired and the Recently Expired

ORLANDO—A neutron bomb hit this place just as I got off the airplane, killing all humans but leaving the buildings intact. It was a horrid, unpardonable crime, and I blame the ...

Bridesmaids: Females Competing for Status and Laughs

Bridesmaids, the first female buddy comedy from producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up and countless others over the last half-decade), stars Kristen Wiig, that passive-aggressive ...

How to Cheat Fairly, Date a Model Safely, and Discipline Teenagers Effectively

Dear Delphi, I am a 48-year-old man and have been married for about 25 years. My wife and I have not been intimate for the last 17 years. So I have engaged in a number of affairs ...

Hugh Grant

Put a Gag on Hugh Grant

To all men's eternal detriment, a conceited fool in the form of has-been actor Hugh Grant, self-appointed spokesman and shop-floor representative for chauvinist bigotry, spoke out ...

Randy

The 12-Step Plan to Restore American Machismo

While getting drunk last night, I noticed a young man had plonked his sports bottle down on the bar like it was a gun and we were in the Wild West. I asked him what the fuck was ...

John Demjanjuk

The Persecution of John Demjanjuk

“John Demjanjuk Guilty of Nazi Death Camp Murders,” ran the headline on the BBC. The lede began: “A German court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of helping to ...

Gunter Sachs

Gunter Sachs’s Mysterious Exit

Why would a German playboy-billionaire industrialist with a large family and lots of old and good friends have dinner in Gstaad with one of his closest buddies, then go up to his ...

Mr. Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay

Old Age Wasted On the Old

A toast, ladies and gentlemen, to Mr. Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay of Nepal, who shuffled off this mortal coil on Monday afternoon at age 82. Mr. Upadhyay was at 18,700 feet above ...

The Beaver: Jodie Foster’s Enduring Relationship With the Insane

Movie folks think they are better than you or me, and sometimes they are right. Jodie Foster, for example, isn"€™t the world's best director, but she may be the bravest. Who ...

Snuffed Like a Candle in the Wind

Like a candle in the wind/ Never knowing where to run to/ When the raid came in.... Tra-la-la! So let us join together and sing out loud, for the somewhat perforated body of a ...


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