Not exactly taking the high road, but sometimes it feels good to get down in the gutter.
GENTLE READER: Although Miss Manners appreciates your concern for disappointed hosts, being sick is a legitimate reason for ...
Your Very Rude Friend is expecting that you will promise not to transgress again, after which you will be issued an invitation to the new group. If you understandably do not wish to eat crow as a ...
Dear Miss Manners: I realize it’s an unpleasant world with unpleasant people who are going to say unpleasant things. But ...
Dear Miss Manners: I realize it’s an unpleasant world with unpleasant people who are going to say unpleasant things. But ...
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to whether fighting rudeness with rudeness is ever ...
I realize it’s an unpleasant world with unpleasant people who are going to say unpleasant things. But sometimes, you have to get down on their level in order for them to get the message. For instance, ...
He evidently thought himself the soul of wit, but, as I have to look for a job with my degree from this school, I did not ...
A reader regrets laughing at a barb about her alma mater, when she actually found the comment to be unfunny and insulting.
Gentle Reader: Thank you for your attempt at helping in the noble cause of mannerliness, but Miss Manners is afraid that your suggestion represents the problem, not the solution. In pursuing the ...
Dear Miss Manners: Lately, I find that whenever I schedule even the most mundane of appointments, I am endlessly nagged by correspondence from the host: “Please confirm Lady Tuna’s rabies booster ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is urging colleagues to behave.