No one majors in English or classics any more. It’s just not practical when you’re facing a pile of debt alongside your diploma.
Archives for 2010
Study of the Day: We Made Cancer
After studying the remains of Egyptian mummies and tracing the instances of cancer throughout literature, a group of scientists at the University of Manchester have declared that cancer is man-made.
FCC ‘Bill Shock’ Plan: What Took So Long?
The FCC has long ignored the mobile industry’s financial wringing of its customers, and the “Bill Shock” plan is mostly a stunt to cover for the Commission’s historical tendency to ignore these kinds of problems.
In Yale Fraternity Pledging, Rape Is a Laughing Matter
This week, a YouTube clip of a Yale University Delta Kappa Epsilon pledging ritual went viral on campus. Posted Wednesday night, immediately after the events took place, the video documents the DKE pledges marching blindfolded on Old Campus—home to the majority of Yale’s freshman women—shouting chants such as “No means yes, yes means anal” and “Fucking sluts.”
It Gets Better
Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns tells gay kids, “It gets better.”
Tailgating in Oaktown
It’s about hanging with your friends, having fun and mocking the shit out of opposing fans In 1995 my beloved Raiders moved back to Oakland at approximately the same time Baby Mama and I moved to Concord, about 20 minutes away. My friends Patrick and Jeff were huge Raiders fans as well and we bought…
The Last Championship
Brendan O’Meara’s dad never missed a Little League game. Twenty years later, Brendan returns the favor: his dad is the star of a seniors-only softball league.
Study of the Day: Men Aren’t Better at Math After All
Eat your heart out, Larry Summers. If you thought men had the edge in math, think again.
Man of the Day: Bill McKibben
McKibben’s most recent book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, explains how Earth has changed and what we need to do about it. We caught up with him for a few questions on manhood and why he does what he does.
White House Calls Homosexuality a ‘Lifestyle Choice’
There were a few ways Obama aide Valerie Jarrett could have addressed the recently publicized series of gay suicides. This wasn’t one of them.
Porn, Another Four-Letter Word
Whether we need to fix the porn industry or try to put an end to it (highly unlikely), we need to talk about it. And that’s just not happening.
Al-Qaeda Has a Magazine, and It’s Horrifying
What we find in the pages of Inspire is a streamlined set of essays, interviews, and features that, in concise and lucid English, synthesize a one-stop-shopping McJihad for Anglophone Muslims.
Real Men Sit in Man Chairs
What marks manliness? Fatherhood, marriage, and a La-Z-Boy. According to John Kass of the Chicago Tribune, if any man wants to maintain a successful marriage, his independence, and his fortitude, he needs a man chair.
Man of the Day: Dylan Galloway
“He had been after me all year in the hall, at lunchtime and during the school day,” said football coach, Toby Doke. “He kept telling me he wanted to score a touchdown.”
A Response to Slate’s DoubleX
Greg Beato’s column about the “new male self-improvement mags” nails traditional men’s titles like GQ and Maxim, but misunderstands what we’re doing at the Good Men Project Magazine.
One Small Step Toward Stem Cell Therapy
It’s been tested on animals for years, but today marked the first federally approved trial of embryonic stem cell therapy on a human. A biotech firm in California injected a patient with a cocktail of spinal cells this morning and if all goes well … nothing much will happen.