Aging More Gracefully Than England

As I write these words and watch them grow into sentences, I am living the final hours of my fifties. By the time you read this, I"€™ll be sixty years old. Or, as French and ...

Miss…or Mr. America?

The 2011 Miss America contest provides an object lesson in the decline of American femininity. Consider the winner: This poor little girl has so physically abused herself at 17 ...

Genomics: China’s New Killer App

This week’s state visit by Hu Jintao, China’s “president”"€”I prefer to say “head apparatchik,” since “president” implies an ...

Crazy Son, Catfighting In-Laws, and the Perils of Puttin”€™ Pussy on a Pedestal

Dear Delphi, I have offered my daughter-in-law all sorts of economic bribes: private school for her children, an all-expenses-paid vacation"€”even a free house"€”but nothing ...

Hoping Against Hope in Detroit

"€œWe"€™re coming back,"€ beamed current Detroit mayor and former Detroit Pistons All-Star Dave Bing last Tuesday as he launched a privately funded $10-million ad campaign ...

Stéphane Hessel: From Resistance to Indignance

Late last year, a small book by a ninety-three-year-old man unexpectedly reached the summit of France's bestseller list. Stéphane Hessel's Indignez-Vous! (Be Indignant!) sold ...

Welcome Back, Kotter 2011

There are really two New Yorks. There's the one Giuliani cleaned up where you can walk around Times Square all night without running into so much as a jaywalker. Then there's East ...

In the Navy!”€”With Gobs of Seamen!

Guess what"€”many gays aren"€™t offended at all by the scandalous USS Enterprise video.  On the contrary, one LGBT website ("€œThe Site with Homosexual Tendencies"€) ...

Clarence Dupnik

The Worst Sheriff in America

There are many heroes who showed indomitable courage and grace under fire during this weekend’s horrific Tucson massacre. Blowhard Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was ...

Republic of Hysteria

hysteria"€”conduct or an outbreak of conduct exhibiting unmanageable fear or emotional excess in individuals or groups [fr. Gk. hystera womb] "€”Webster’s Third New ...

Post-Abortion Remorse, Fake Fendi, and Racing Against the Biological Clock

Dear Delphi, I am a 40-year-old man and about six years ago I told my then-girlfriend to abort our unborn child, which she did. Now I would really like to find someone and become ...

When the Punishment Fits the Crime

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time"€” To let the punishment fit the crime"€” The punishment fit the crime. Was that a New Year's resolution of Prisons Minister ...

Mark Twain and his friend John Lewis in 1903

Huckleberry Finn and the Whitewashing of American History

By its editor's count, 219 "€œniggers"€ have been expunged from a reprint of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that’s being foisted on our humiliatingly ...

A Miserable Slog Called Biutiful

Who's the leading leading man these days? Having sat through all 147 dolorous minutes of Biutiful, Alejandro González Iñárritu's follow-up to 2006's Babel (a pretentious ...

English Defence League: Defending the Rainbow Against Extreme Islam

The English Defence League (EDL) is a white-power sect of the British National Party that hates Jews, gays, and blacks but REALLY hates Muslims. In short, they"€™re Nazis. ...

Tennis Legend Gardnar Mulloy: Still Serving at 97

I do not have many friends who are 97, but tennis legend Gardnar Mulloy is one of them. It is not clear why I should be so lucky to know him, nor why I should have had the ...


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