Too Old for Viagra, Too Young for Drinking, and Too Scared to Date Again

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, ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson

Down-Low Under the Rainbow?: Jesse Jackson Accused of Gay Harassment

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 ...

Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld: Known, Unknown, and Better Left Unsaid

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 ...

Everybody Must Get Stoned

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 ...

Fernando Valenzuela

Fernandomania No Mas

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 ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Humanistic Psychology and the Crisis of Meaning

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 ...

Ability: The Key to Social Mobility

The British government is planning to nationalize social mobility as part of something involving "€œfairness"€ and government programs. This is sinister because "€œsocial ...

Fort Pickens, Florida

The Real Reason We Build Forts

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 ...

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Whose Side Are You On?

In both politics and sports fandom, the fundamental question is: "€œWhose side are you on?"€ Exploring who roots for whom affords perspective on the big questions of who is ...

Gauche Contre Droite: The Lévy-Houellebecq Letters

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? ...

Catching Hell From a Hellene, the Flirty French, and Let “€œThe One”€ Have Some Fun

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 ...

Mold Age: The Curse of Modern Medicine

"€œI"€™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 ...

George Carlin

Seven Ideas You Can Never Discuss on Television

In 1972 comedian George Carlin famously delineated the "€œSeven Words You Can Never Say on Television."€ All seven words dealt with bodily parts or functions at a time when ...

Football, Tribalism, and Racist Bananas

In sporting terms, America is very much an island with its own quaint customs. For this reason the etymologically unsound American version of "€œfootball"€"€”the world's ...

Robert A. Heinlein

Heinlein in Hindsight: The Moses of Nerds

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 ...

Rebecca Black

Becky Black’s “€œFriday”€: Pap Music’s Weak End

As an aficionado of the atrocious, I thought I"€™d sneak a peek at Rebecca Black's song "€œFriday."€ For those too engrossed in such small matters as Libya to notice, the ...


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