About Judith Martin: Judith Martin is an American journalist, author, and etiquette authority. Martin's uncle was economist and labor historian Selig Perlman.
We're now seeing email that people thought they had deleted showing up as evidence in court. You can't erase email. As that becomes more commonly realized, people will be a little wiser about what they type.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I a tired of being treated like a child. My father says it's because I am a child--I am twelve-and-a-half years old--but it still isn't fair. If I go into a store to buy something, nobody pays any attention to me, or if they do, it...
When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion o...
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.
If you can't be kind, at least be vague.
Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.
