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ARIES March 21-April 19: Herman Hesse’s novel Siddhartha is a story about a spiritual seeker who goes in search of illumination. Near the end of...

Endless plates of cruelty In a press release earlier this week, Applebee’s restaurants announced “the long-awaited return of All-You-Can Eat Riblets to kick-off 2018!” But the...

Welcome to the eighth annual 101-word fiction contest. We took great joy in reading the nearly 100 reader-submitted entries. We chose the 13 submissions...

Hall in hot water...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Anders Haugen competed for the U.S. as a ski jumper in the 1924 Winter Olympics. Although he was an accomplished athlete...

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Spencer Silver was a co-inventor of Post-it notes, those small, colorful pieces of paper you can temporarily attach to things and then remove to use again and again. Speaking about the process he went through to develop this simple marvel, he...

Dear Dan: I’m a straight guy, married for 16 years, kids in school. My wife cannot find a way to be intimate with me. We’ve had therapy individually and together. I nearly divorced her, but we decided to stay together — we do love each other, and the economics and ...

Dear Dan: I love that you use the term “cocksucker” only in a non-pejorative way. I don’t know if you’ve said so explicitly, but I imagine your aim is to remove its negative connotation. As the owner of a cock, I think cocksucking is WONDERFUL! Therefore, cocksuckers...

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes unfollowing all of my friends on Instagram when they stop posting photos of their old, fun...

A week ago Friday, lawyers for Richard Kirk, a Denver man who is charged with the murder of his wife after eating a cannabis edible during a domestic disturbance in April 2014, changed his original plea from not guilty to not guilty by reason of insanity...

Very funny...

And then there were nine. On Monday, Vermont Republican Governor Phil Scott closed the blinds in his office, gagged, wretched, moaned, clenched his teeth, held...