Today’s prescription: two doses of OK! and a shot of Us Weekly. We’re kidding (sort of), but according to a new study at the University of Missouri, celebrity tabloids may have a notably positive impact on the way their readers approach health issues. “Based on the discussion of participants, we observed that it is possible…
Archives for October 2010
Ohio High School Chants a Homophobic Slur at Football Game
Taking a cue from Yale DKE pledges, students from North High School in Eastlake, Ohio, had this to say about the opposing team.
Murderous Prince Faces Death Penalty … for Homosexuality
Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir al Saud, a Saudi Arabian prince, was convicted of murdering his servant, Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz, at a London hotel in February. He’s facing the death penalty, but not for the murder. No, he faces execution because he might’ve been gay. The murdered servant was his alleged partner.
(Talking About) Sex Sells
What’s fascinating to us is how sexuality is changing in the Facebook age—social mores, gender roles, issues of responsibility—and how beneficial it is to take these issues to an open forum and open up a dialogue.
Hard Times Call for Manlier Men in Fashion
The fashion, features, and overall aesthetic of men’s magazines is shifting from a lifestyle of insatiable pleasure to one that’s more earnest, more serious. But when jobs return and the economy rebounds, will excess find its spotlight again?
Drug Addicts Are Paid Not to Breed
Would you take $315 to be sterilized? Well, if you’re a drug addict and you live in the United Kingdom, you can.
James Franco Can Write
“Palo Alto” gets our recommendation.
To Protect and Fix: Fathering With a Backbone
Mike Lansbury knows when to step in. It’s backing off that proves the real challenge.
Is America in a ‘Father Absence’ Crisis?
Are we in the midst of a fatherhood crisis? There’s a new ad campaign designed at getting Asian-American, American-Indian, and Hispanic fathers more involved in the lives of their children.
Man of the Day: Jothy Rosenberg
Jothy Rosenberg has done a lot in his life. And he’s done it all on one leg.
Study of the Day: Gender Equality Worldwide
Want to live in a world where men and women are equal? Move to Scandinavia.
The Duke F**k List and the Age of Zero Privacy
Does hooking up hurt our future relationships—and should we be adjusting our private behavior for a potential audience?
3 out of 4 Tweets Totally Ignored
Companies use it, celebrities hump it, and ordinary schmoes like you and me transform the achingly mundane into inflated snapshots of what life is really like. But nobody gives a shit.
Cheat on Your Wife for $100,000
It seems like a match made … err … several hundred feet below the surface of the earth.
Candidates Everywhere Told to ‘Man Up’
Sarah Palin famously accused President Obama of not having “cojones,” apparently unaware that she is without that dingly-dangly courage-center herself. In so doing, she seems to have set off a wave of post-feminist, post-logical attacks.
The Power of Forgiveness
Our friends at Fox 25 Morning News put together this piece about two local news stories in which victims forgave the people who changed their lives forever.