For a few hours one Sunday a year I get to be the most special person in the lives of a few hundred 4-year olds. Can anything be better than that?
Archives for 2010
Four Real-Life Immaculate Conceptions
Here’s a list that you’ll want to check twice: a list of non-mythological pseudo-virgin births. The last one is a shocker.
Good Comment of the Day: You Can Eat Meat Without Objectifying Women
“Does objectifying cars and exploiting televisions mean you can’t stop objectifying and exploiting women?”
Study of the Day: Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas
Don’t you love the holidays so much you could just die? A new study says that you might do exactly that.
Still-Corrupt NCAA Sanctions Ohio State
Despite what the NCAA says, it comes down to the money—like it always does.
Ten things I’ve learned from my favourite Christmas tunes
Note: I normally hate Christmas music. “Song for a winter’s night” – Gordon Lightfoot: songs about love can make you feel lonely when you’re single. But sometimes, it’s nostalgic and nice. “Oogie Boogie’s song” – Nightmare Before Christmas: bad guys love jazz. “All I want for Christmas is you” – Mariah Carey: I really like…
Male Birth Control Takes a Step Forward in the U.S.
RISUG involves injecting a compound into your vas deferens that makes sperm unable to penetrate the egg. It’s effective for 10 years and easily reversible. Would you consider it?
Can You Support Gender Equality Without Being a Vegetarian?
Carol Adams’ theory has been distorted by everyone from Lady Gaga to PETA.
Every Esquire Magazine Cover From 2010 … at Once
Inspired by this pretty compilation of the year’s Vogue covers, we decided to throw together our own (highly androgynous) rendition.
The 10 at 10: December 23
Geeky grinches, supersmart pups, and fish that kill (when fried): your 10 at 10.
The Drunken States of America
The guys over at GOOD magazine put the latest results of an impaired driving survey from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services into beautiful graphic form.
Happy Festivus
It’s Festivus… for the rest of us! It’s simply the best Effing holiday of the year. Seriously. I first became aware of Festivus at the same time many of you did. It was December 18, 1997 and I was watching Seinfeld. Frank Costanza was explaining the origins of the holiday to Kramer, who of course…
A Good Man’s Guide to Catcalling
Guys, if you want to get a woman’s attention, here’s what you should say.
The Numbers of Hummingbirds
In this installment of “Love, Recorded,” news of the baby’s high heart rate sends the whole house into unrest.
A Touchy Subject
You may have an unhealthily Puritanical aversion to your body’s various parts and functions, but children don’t. Children are free and open with their bodies and have no time for your squeamishness.
Barney Frank Admits to a Radical Homosexual Agenda
Wondering what’s going to happen when—eek—gay and straight guys shower together? We’ll let Frank answer that one for you.