2010 June — The Good Men Project

A Celebration of Fatherhood

June 18, 2010 By the Editors 6 Comments

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A photographic journey of dads through the past 100 years.

Filed Under: Father's Day, Featured Content Tagged With: 100 years, Families, Father Timeline, Father's Day, photographic essay

Your Friday Soccer Digest

June 18, 2010 By Newsroom Leave a Comment

North Korea hires fans to cheer for its soccer team. U.S. ties Slovenia thanks to a moronic call by referee.

Filed Under: Newsroom Tagged With: north korea, propaganda, slovenia, soccer, world cup

Good Men Project in the News

June 17, 2010 By Newsroom Leave a Comment

Haven’t been googling “The Good Men Project” every five minutes? Don’t worry, we have. Here’s what’s been happening.

Filed Under: Newsroom Tagged With: Benoit Denizet-Lewis, cbs, deadsin, gawker, new york magazine, new york observer

Tweeting for Good Men

June 16, 2010 By Newsroom 2 Comments

We spent three hours on twitter searching for the words “good men.” What did we learn? That people are bat-shit crazy, and that everyone seems to be looking for a good man. Enjoy.

Filed Under: A&E Tagged With: "Where are all the good men?", Good Men, Good Men Project, Twitter

A Son’s Life Sentence

June 16, 2010 By Michael J. Mooney 3 Comments

Jay Cooper was only two when his father was sent away for a crime he didn’t commit. Twenty-five years later, can father and son pick up where they left off?

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Filed Under: Best of Ethics & Values, Best of Families, Father's Day, Featured Content Tagged With: DNA, exonerated, Father's Day, Jay Cooper, prison, wrongly convicted

Drinking (and Driving) With Dad

June 16, 2010 By Will Leitch 1 Comment

In an excerpt from his new book, Are We Winning?, Will Leitch writes about beer, baseball, and his forgiving father.

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Filed Under: Best of Families, Father's Day, Featured Content Tagged With: baseball, Beer, Busch Stadium, father, Illinois, Mattoon, Midwest, Mom and Dad, St. Louis Cardinals, Will Leitch

Sweet Music

June 16, 2010 By Dave Ford Leave a Comment

Resentment, fear, anger: these are locked in time; love knows no bounds. Love is jazz.

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Filed Under: A&E, Best of A&E, Father's Day, Featured Content Tagged With: dad, Dave Ford, dixieland, Ed Sullivan, Exile on Main Street, Father's Day, jazz, music, the beatles, The Rolling Stones

American Badass

June 15, 2010 By Newsroom 1 Comment

Meet Gary Brooks Faulkner, the scary-looking man hot on the trail of Osama bin Laden.

Filed Under: Newsroom Tagged With: 9/11, Afghanistan, badass, bounty hunter, Gary Brooks Faulkner, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan

Your Dad, in Two Words

June 15, 2010 By Tom Matlack 43 Comments

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We asked men to describe their fathers in two words. This is what they said.

Filed Under: Editors' Picks, Father's Day, Good Is Good Tagged With: Dave Cowens, David Carr, Father's Day, Junot Diaz, Nick Flynn, Pat Fitzgerald, Robert Kraft, Tom Junod, Tom Matlack

Hush Money

June 15, 2010 By Ina Chadwick 25 Comments

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Ina Chadwick reminisces about her larger-than-life father and his untimely death—and imagines how it might have been different.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Best of Advice & Confessions, Best of Families, Families Tagged With: dad, Father's Day, Ina Chadwick, labor, union

Father Figures

June 15, 2010 By Andrew Ladd 2 Comments

You think you’re busy? Meet Galileo, Darwin, and Marx, who fathered schools of thought in between fathering children.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: Andrew Ladd, Darwin, Dava Sobel, Francis Wheen, Galileo, Jack Rakove, Marx

Finding Your Own Way

June 15, 2010 By Felix Manuel Rodriguez 1 Comment

When Felix Rodriguez was 11, he struck out to end a playoff game. Then he cried, because there’s definitely crying in little league baseball—and because he didn’t have a dad.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions Tagged With: baseball, dad, Father's Day, Felix Rodriguez, little league

Routine Heir

June 15, 2010 By Roger L. Durham 3 Comments

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Roger Durham inherits his dad’s Father’s Day routine—and it’s perfect.

Filed Under: Families Tagged With: burgers, Churchill Downs, Father's Day, grill, routine, sons, U.S. Open

Bad Dad

June 15, 2010 By Michael FitzGerald 2 Comments

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When Michael FitzGerald lost his job, he didn’t tell his kids. But they knew something was fishy.

Filed Under: dadsgood, DadsGood Featured Content, Families, Men at Home, new dads Tagged With: bad dad, career, Father's Day, Michael FitzGerald, unemployed

In Honor of My Dad, Who Didn’t Know He Had a Son

June 15, 2010 By Tom Forrister 2 Comments

Tom Forrister celebrates his dad—and wonders how, as a transgender man, he can put his fathering instinct to use.

Filed Under: Best of Families, Best of Good Men Project Magazine, Families, Father's Day, Gender & Sexuality Tagged With: dad, Father's Day, FTM, Tom Forrister, transgender

A Heavy Timepiece

June 15, 2010 By Hyla Molander 11 Comments

Hyla Molander passes on a special Father’s Day gift, from one husband to another.

Filed Under: Sex & Relationships Tagged With: Bell & Ross, death, family, Father's Day, Hyla Molander, Ironman, Marin County, Sex and Relationships, Time, watch

Good Feed blog

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Yale QB Witt Denies NYT Charges

Patrick Witt released a statement calling into question the veracity of the NYT story and coverage.

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Jan the President Was Born in the U.S., Really!

Wagging a finger at the leader of the free world is never a good idea.

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A Week in Review

A weekly summary of key events in no particular order with no attempt to be fair, politically correct, or remotely thoughtful.

Is Yale QB Hamlet or Rapist?

Patrick Witt was suppose to be the answer to Penn State.

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