Much ink has been spilled scapegoating the various newfangled nerdy types known as "quants" for the financial apocalypse. As a journeyman member of the breed, I"m ...
My first and only kid was born two years ago, and I almost didn’t live to see him. A month before he hatched, a jumbo brain tumor knocked me unconscious. I turned blue and ...
Dear Delphi, I am a 58-year-old man and I am considering getting hair plugs. What do you think? "Hair Loss in Hartford Dear Hair Loss in Hartford, I don"t think men ...
Part I Following my recent tour of the Petropavlovsk gold project in Eastern Russia, I opted to return home by a somewhat circuitous route, spending two days in Haida Gwaii, off ...
Kids these days have short attention spans. Or so I"ve often been informed. For example, Baroness Greenfield, an Oxford professor of "synaptic pharmacology," recently ...
Divorced, decapitated, dead"King Henry VIII's wives had it simple. For 21st-century fortysomethings"my contemporaries"the litany of woe is somewhat more extensive: ...
Two months after the second WTC tower collapsed, George W. Bush started the Transportation Security Administration. A month later, some British douchebag who called himself ...
America is in debt past its eyeballs. Unemployment remains stuck near double digits. Small and large businesses, unions and insurers are clamoring for Obamacare waivers in droves. ...
Boles, Nick. Which Way's Up?: The Future for Coalition Britain and How to Get There. London, Biteback, 2010, 133 pages, £8.99. Nick Boles not only belongs to the new generation ...
Now, class, you will remember in this symposium's first installment that we dealt with the dry martini, the pink gin, and the bullshot, the proper cocktails which mark a gentleman ...
Other than being the highest-profile Republican victims of Tea Party candidates, what do Mike Castle, Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter have in common? Other than being tea party ...
Two years ago, I was invited to an Election Eve party in Harlem. I found New York was vibrating with premature praise for our Savior. Centuries of cruel white hegemony would ...
Barack Obama's election was an anomaly, a lurch backward. It defied the apparently inevitable and stood athwart history crying, "Stop!" It has been clear for at least ten ...
Dear Delphi, I am a 26-year-old boy and have a great girlfriend I really like. The problem is, I want to have some time with the boys but I can"t seem to manage. This is how ...
The exuberant 127 Hours, Director Danny Boyle's first movie since winning the Best Picture Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, is surprisingly comparable to The Social Network. While ...
The printer cartridge bombs which nearly blew up U.S.-bound commercial jets have turned Sana"a, Yemen, into the new world terror capital. Terror, which the United States ...