Michael Moore

Limo Driver Murders Limousine Liberal!

It's no coincidence that both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were born into cozy bourgeois households nestled high above the dirty claws of proletarian squalor. Neither is it a ...

In Praise of Hypocrisy

“Hypocrisie est un hommage que la vice rend à la vertu.” La Rochefoucauld was right. Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. More to the point, virtue ...

William Wales and Kate Middleton

Killjoys Be Gone: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Get Hitched

At the risk of being antiquated, I am wholeheartedly in favor of the nuptials taking place today in London. This, despite its apparently being déclassé for one to admit to ...

Atlas Shrugged: A Hymn to the Overdog

Atlas Shrugged: Part I is the most universally despised movie of 2011, but I liked it. Critics hate this adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1957 cult novel for predictable ideological ...

Runaway Baby Train, Dying to Dye My Daughter, and Euthanizing a Dog Owner

Dear Delphi, I have been married for five years and trying to get pregnant for the past year. Then all of a sudden out of nowhere, my husband gets diagnosed with MS about a month ...

Linda Christian

No Flowers for Charlie Sheen

Gone are the days when I used to wear a tux to go see a Broadway show. These days I feel overdressed wearing a sport coat and necktie. I used to go to Broadway a lot when I was ...

Andy Dalton

Will America Tolerate a Redheaded Quarterback?

With the NFL draft approaching this Thursday, an unidentified pro football executive recently asked a reporter whether Rose Bowl-winning quarterback Andy Dalton's cheese ...

The Conspirator: Guantanamo Nay

Robert Redford's courtroom drama The Conspirator recounts the 1865 trial by a military tribunal of Confederate partisan Mary Surratt for her murky role in John Wilkes Booth's plot ...

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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