The Beast's arrival in Europe brought comparisons to the Hindus" Juggernaut, the giant sacred conveyance that carried the idol of Jagannath, transcendental cause of the ...
In February, fresh from the great victory at Oxford, I went to a dinner party in London. At one point my historian friend asked: "Don"t you miss Europe?" My response ...
In that wonderful old Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, gambler Sky Masterson is romancing the Salvation Army’s Sister Sarah Brown after an all-nighter of boozing it up in ...
Satire is a reactionary art form powered by contempt for the present. Although Woody Allen, now 75, has always espoused conventionally liberal views, he's one of the last figures ...
Dear Delphi, My parents are going through a divorce after 35 years of marriage. I don"t see the point of it all after 35 years, and even though I am a grown woman I am still ...
According to reviewers, Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit From the Goon Squad is "virtuosic," "shape shifting," "startlingly new," and it "turns the ...
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 ...
Among the thousands of wailing grievance groups the progressive left nurtures, enables, coddles, and waters, "food activists" tend to be among the most humorlessly ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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