POSTED // Dec 12,2007 - Dear Mexican: I’m sad that there aren’t more Mexicans here in the Detroit area. We’re one of the few areas in the country that is predominately Catholic. We’ve welcomed wave after wave of Catholic immigrants for well over a hundred...

POSTED // Dec 12,2007 - Dear Cecil: I was reading your enlightening discourse on the likelihood of people dining on mammoth [Sept. 14] and was somewhat dismayed to see you use the term “entree” to allude to the main course of a formal dinner. I understand that as...

POSTED // Dec 5,2007 - ARIES (March 21-April 19) This would be an excellent time for you to visit terminally ill patients in a hospice or go on a tour of a maximum-security prison. To take maximum advantage of the current cosmic opportunities, you might also travel to the...

POSTED // Dec 5,2007 - Curses, Foiled Again Police identified Suzanne Gruber, 39, as their shoplifting suspect after she fled from a clothing store in Greenburgh, N.Y., but neglected to take her infant son. “The mother panicked,” police Lt. Desmond Martin told The...

POSTED // Dec 5,2007 - Dear Mexican: I was born in beautiful El Paso, and my parents are from Juaritos. I always wondered why Mexican restaurants en los Estados Unidos use queso amarillo—which I associate with los Estados Unidos—on their food instead of queso asadero...

POSTED // Dec 5,2007 - Is it true that Victorian doctors used to masturbate neurotic female patients to orgasm and used special new inventions (e.g., vibrators) to do so? If so, does this have any connection with Freud’s theories on female sexuality? —Rob King,...

POSTED // Nov 28,2007 - ARIES (March 21-April 19) How much more can you hold? How much further are you willing to reach? How much bigger of a big picture can you open your mind to see? We will soon discover the answers to those questions, as well as several others that have...

POSTED // Nov 28,2007 - Curses, Foiled Again Authorities who charged Timothy Scott Short, 33, with possessing a stolen Digimarc printer, used by the state of Missouri to make driver’s licenses, identified him because he called Digimarc’s tech support line—twice—trying...

POSTED // Nov 28,2007 - Dear Mexican: With a scant four weeks before I cram my mochila with a few clothes for me and a horde of presents (read: bribes) for my future cuñadas, sobrinas, y mi mera suegra, I found myself terror-stricken tonight as mi novio and I watched...

POSTED // Nov 21,2007 - ARIES (March 21-April 19) When life gets weird, should you take refuge in decorum and tradition? Should you intensify your commitment to the humdrum? Is it wise to dress more conservatively, act more dignified, and smile more automatically? I say no....