Readers might have got the impression from Michael Wex's first book, "Born to Kvetch," a fascinating and funny exploration of the mind-set revealed by the Yiddish language, that he'd more or less left ...

Get your mace ready, flight attendants. Westword‘s favorite Shmuck of the Week recipient, Christina Szele, will have the opportunity to continue her reign of shmuckiness far sooner than many observers ...

Alcoholism is a disease. But being a Shmuck? Well, there’s just no excuse for that. And if Robert “Ice Man” Evans ever gets his knuckle head out of his dumb ass, he probably won’t be able to offer one ...

“The problem is that everybody appears to be equally stupid, and we’re not actually equally stupid. Some of us are stupid in different ways or stupider than others, and if everybody in an article ...

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