The great reactionary novelist Evelyn Waugh owned a country house in Combe Florey, southwest England. Among the furnishings was a set of three paintings under the collective title ...
Part II Last week I wrote about my memorable-albeit-disagreeable encounter with one Daniel C. Leghorn in Bemelman's bar at New York's Carlyle hotel. It was there where, fortified ...
Dear Delphi, I want my husband to get a vasectomy. I don"t want to die before him and have him remarry some young hussy and have more children. I think this is more than ...
In outline, The King's Speech sounds like a Wayans Brothers spoof of a Weinstein Brothers prestige film: an Oscar-bound movie where the King of England, a victim of society's ...
Sometimes a story brings an era into focus, and that story now is the saga of fake Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour. He was ostensibly a senior Taliban official, and American ...
It used to be a big deal to have a college education. Back in 1960, about 8% of the population had one, and this chosen few deserved their popularity in the job market. The baby ...
One of my favorite television programs is “How It’s Made” on the Science Channel. The documentary series shows “how the everyday objects people use become ...
I agree with other reviewers that Bruce Springsteen's album The Promise is incendiary. I mean, Jesus H., has there ever been another collection of artistic work culled together ...
In the 1960s a kind of sport for us Yanks in Paris was making light of our cheese-eating, surrender-monkey hosts. Dr. Reginald Kernan led the American Mafia at the Travellers ...
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 ...
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