The Weekly Curmudgeon

If you've immigrated to the United States without knowing much about your new home, you might be puzzled about which political party is...

It never fails. Just as you've mastered the latest version of your now-necessary technology, the company that makes it triumphantly...

Greetings, fellow grouches. This week, I welcome my very first guest curmudgeon, author Thomas H. Keels, who has a bone to pick. I...

As a public service to those men out there who are attempting to hide their hair loss with some sort of fakery, I offer this helpful tip:...

The Curmudgeon does a lot of traveling by air. (Spreading the word on what everyone is doing wrong is a full-time job lately—busy, busy,...

Tools aren't interchangeable. Ask anyone who works with his hands. Artists use different brushes to achieve different effects. Each brush...

All right, Curmudgeonites. I'm going to try to lay this out calmly . . . though I don't expect to succeed. This is how it works: When...

As a native, born-and-bred New Yorker—as well as a somewhat ancient one—I've had the opportunity to witness a lot of changes in our fair...

Richard and Cindy have a problem. House #1 has the lanai overlooking the Pacific that Cindy has always dreamed of, but there's no place...

If you've ever enjoyed that uniquely Italian beverage, caffè espresso, you know of its cheeky zing and bitter goodness. It's not quite...

It was late in life that I came to realize that the bizarre and unprovoked aggression I was occasionally encountering was actually a very...

Here we are again, readers, for another futile attempt at restoring sanity, accuracy, and elegance to a society that is determined to...

I have long believed that when businesses fail, when shows flop, when plans go wrong, when products tank, and when people embarrass...

Not everyone is special. Not everyone is smart. Not everyone is beautiful. If we were all equally marvelous and delightful and talented...

There are advantages to living in the jungle. You can walk wherever you like, at your own pace, and stop any time you want, for as long...