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The Good Men Project on Fox 25 News
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Picture of the Day
As part of his “Bodies in Urban Spaces” performance art piece, choreographer Willi Dorner arranged dancers into unusual positions all over New York City’s Financial District. Photographer Bryan Derballa took the photos for The Wall Street Journal, and you can see the rest of them here.
“No Worries,” No Standard for Covering War
Good Men Project Magazine contributor Preston Moore weighs in on this post (where you can see the PBS clip at issue) about PBS war coverage, which was a response to this post at the National Review Online. Preston asks, “Which video is really exploiting the military and their families?” Pia de Solenni faults the embedded…
Picture of the Day
A map of New York City, by ethnicity. “Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people.” Other cities here.
Picture of the Day
The world’s strongest spider web is tougher than kevlar.
Spanish Pornographer Sells Twitter Account to Israel
The Israeli government might not negotiate with terrorists, but they’re more than willing to deal with pornographers. They have acquired the “Israel” twitter account from Israel Meléndez, the owner of a Spanish porn site. Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, confirmed the purchase. He declined to say how much Israel paid, but…
The Good Men Project Joins Up with … Penthouse?
Yep, you read that right. Tom Matlack has agreed to let Penthouse run five essays from the Good Men Project book. How did Tom come to this decision? Isn’t Penthouse exactly what the Good Men Project is trying not to be? Tom addresses these questions in his piece, “A Match Made in Heaven?” He doesn’t…
Photo of the Day: Wine Vending Machines
Self-service wine tanks have arrived in French supermarkets.
Photo of the Day
Photo by Stephen Sheffield.
Video of the Day: Baby Has Some Things to Say
Photo of the Day
Photo courtesy of Todd Riddle.
Way Too Many Americans Still Killing Themselves Slowly
One in five Americans still smoke. That rate has held steady since 2004. (Photo by Good Men contributor Stephen Sheffield.)
An Open Letter to People Who Say Silly Things to Sign Language Interpreters
Over at McSweeney’s, sign language interpreter Kaden Mack writes… Dear People Who, When I Tell Them I Am an American Sign Language Interpreter, Tell Me How Difficult They Imagine Braille Is to Learn/Read Books With, Every ASL interpreter has had this experience. Multiple, multiple times. It makes no sense. There are so many of you.…
Photo of the Day
In honor of the NFL opener tonight between the Vikings and the Saints. Photo by JustUptown
Jesse Kornbluth on Freedom
Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel, Freedom, landed him on the cover of Time and earned him the title of the “Great American Novelist.” We’re all planning to read it but haven’t had the time yet. For one thing, it’s 562 pages long. For another, we’re terribly overworked and need to catch up on laundry and Curb…