Regret the Error

The May issue of Esquire includes a section that promises to give readers 26 “skills worth having.” Included among the advice on skinning a moose, giving a massage, parallel parking, and consoling a crying woman was a lesson in how to “curse well.” That item apparently upset a number of readers and the magazine has [...]

The 75th anniversary issue of Esquire currently on newsstands includes a corrections-as-humor contribution by Buddy Kite: An article in the December 1983 Golden Anniversary Collector’s Issue-”50 Who Made the Difference: A Celebration of Fifty American Originals”-imprecisely described Dr. Benjamin Spock. Further reporting revealed that Dr. Spock had no idea what he was talking about and [...]