Beastie Boy Adam Yauch Passes Away

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How will you best remember Adam Yauch (aka MCA)?

“At some level, empathy is empathy, whether it’s your sibling, a cat, or a spider.”

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Big Pussy Takes the Big Apple: the Surprising Success of Meow the Cat

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Oliver Lee Bateman chews on how America is eating up its literal fat cat.

Stressed-Out Men Aren’t Sexy? Thanks CNN!

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Nicole Johnson thinks CNN should focus more on news that matters and less on pointing out the obvious.

Men and Secondary Trauma

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Society has made men the silent sufferers when what they really need is a listening ear.

What Do You Really Know About Hookers?

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As the human trafficking problem worsens, Raymond Bechard writes, so does the issue of false and misleading media.

TV News: A Danger to the Boys

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How are our boys going to grow up to be good if we only show them stories of men being evil?

The Rebirth of Newspapers

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Are newspapers dead or are they finally waking up to the fact that readers are their most important customers?

NBA Playoffs: Where Blather Goes to Die

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With nothing else to feed its hunger, the NBA’s conventional wisdom cannibalizes itself.

Men Don’t Take Megyn Kelly Seriously

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Should women wear frumpy pantsuits if they want to be taken seriously?

Why Has Nobody Called Jared Lee Loughner a Terrorist?

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Color never fails to be a factor in the way the media depicts assassins.

10 at 10: January 10

A unicorn is here to see you.

The Weekly World News is reporting that the 10 at 10 is the greatest thing since Facebook.

Blogger Roundtable: ‘The Morning News’

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While the hot words in online publishing are specific things like verticals and niches, “The Morning News” has moved in the opposite direction.

Wikileaks’ Office Batcave

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“If Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is trying to turn himself into a Bond villain, he’s succeeded.”

Blogger Roundtable: HyperVocal

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Slade Sohmer spent five years in a CNN newsroom, then two-plus years in talk radio’s right-wing echo chamber.

Man Forced to Eat His Own Beard Over Lawnmower Dispute

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Don’t you hate it when your friend offers to buy a lawnmower off of you and then chops off your beard and forces you to eat it?