Celebrities, watch out. Some of us aren’t going to cut you a break just because you’re dead. While adoring fans pile gaudy flowers, fragrant candles and handmade knickknacks in front of the coffins of recently deceased superstars, most of us wonder why. Read more...

Let’s say I’m gay ““ born gay, still gay, living gay. And let’s say I really want to be straight. To continue on our hypothetical theme, let’s say there’s a way for me to do exactly what I want ““ let’s say there’s a hormone patch that could provide me with the exact opportunity I desire. Read more...

Rabbi should consider new points of view In his criticism of Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein’s willingness to speak about the decades-long oppression of Palestinians (“Holocaust survivor takes a stand,” Jan. Read more...

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Since President Bush’s address on Iraq last Wednesday, there’s been an awful lot of talk about responsibility. Whose responsibility is it, we ponder, to pacify a country riven by civil war and to coax it into a stable, democratic future? Read more...

Americans love their drugs too much. The Federal Department of Agriculture reached a new low last week when it approved a diet pill for dogs. The same organization that can’t seem to figure out exactly how to prevent farmers from contaminating produce with cow manure has been hard at work. Read more...

Lana Yoo Victoria may or may not really have a secret, but she sure stirs peculiarities ““ one of them being the significance of the Victoria’s Secret Semi-Annual Sale, currently going on until the end of January. Read more...