Dear Delphi, I am a 68-year-old man and I want to use Viagra. My concern is that it is not healthy. I am worried about kidney failure, a heart attack, a paralyzing stroke, ...
Upon hearing that an openly (and screamingly!) gay black male ex-employee of Rainbow/PUSH had filed a complaint against Jesse Jackson and his organization for discrimination and ...
Nixon in China, John Adams's opera based on Richard Nixon's détente-seeking 1972 visit to the People's Republic, has Kissinger pirouetting, Chairman and Madame Mao dancing the ...
Executing a malefactor by stoning has received bad press due to a deplorable enthusiasm among certain modern Muslims for pelting adulterous women with rocks. But stoning seems no ...
With the Census Bureau announcing this spring that the number of Hispanics in America has surpassed 50 million"a large majority of them of Mexican background"it's worth ...
A new study predicts that organized religion is heading toward extinction in nine nations. On some levels, this may be grounds for rejoicing: less fanaticism, fewer infringements ...
The British government is planning to nationalize social mobility as part of something involving "fairness" and government programs. This is sinister because "social ...
A punchably positive viral video that popped up like a smiley-faced genital wart a couple weeks ago featured four chipper young SoCal Caucasians seeking seed money to help them ...
In both politics and sports fandom, the fundamental question is: "Whose side are you on?" Exploring who roots for whom affords perspective on the big questions of who is ...
Last week we nostalgically suggested that culturally, things might have been better in the past. This week we will nostalgically infer that they might be better elsewhere. Where? ...
Dear Delphi, The other night I was out to dinner with one of my best friends and her husband starts awkwardly rambling about how he is attracted to pregnant women. Both his wife ...
"I"m ninety-one years old, you know?" Bravo. Now have your diuretics and your hot milk drink, take your heart pills and blood-pressure tablets and your fistful of ...
In 1972 comedian George Carlin famously delineated the "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." All seven words dealt with bodily parts or functions at a time when ...
In sporting terms, America is very much an island with its own quaint customs. For this reason the etymologically unsound American version of "football""the world's ...
The rise of the nerds to mainstream dominance is one of popular culture's most important developments over the last generation. Consider the gulf in sensibility between old ...
As an aficionado of the atrocious, I thought I"d sneak a peek at Rebecca Black's song "Friday." For those too engrossed in such small matters as Libya to notice, the ...