We men are undergoing an image transformation from beer-swilling, Chiko roll-wielding Neanderthals to beer-sipping, rice paper roll-nibbling gentry. It seems that we’re progressing in a retrospective manner to the days of yore when steam power was de rigeur and opium could be procured without harried trip in someone’s derrière. Some might accuse this modern dandy of being [...]

I’m perplexed by a party invitation problem: I don’t want to invite losers. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them getting about; sometimes in disguise as interesting arty folk and occasionally my loser beam doesn’t pick up on it until they are within its circumference at a gathering. What’s a sure-fire question I can ask [...]