19 Comments | Posted August 7, 2011 | 04:35 PM (EST)
I had just finished the harrowing account of just how we got bin Laden in the New Yorker -- including a Navy Seal who tackled two people he had reason to believe had suicide bomb vests on to save the...
5 Comments | Posted August 7, 2011 | 09:13 AM (EST)
Is addiction a "special gift" that, if harnessed, can be used for good rather than evil?
A while ago, I wrote about Amy Winehouse's tragic death and wondered out loud about what role her art and addiction played in her demise, along with a long list of other great artists...
3 Comments | Posted July 25, 2011 | 10:41 AM (EST)
Posted July 11, 2011 | 11:13 AM (EST)
A couple of hours after I got to Paradise Valley, Montana I handed my laptop and iPhone over to Stacy, the ranch guest manager. I had already snuck upstairs in the lodge to login on the ranch's improved satellite Internet to put together a...
3 Comments | Posted July 5, 2011 | 03:35 PM (EST)
14 Comments | Posted July 5, 2011 | 10:34 AM (EST)
Sometimes pop culture actually gets it right. By that I mean cultural icons can tap into something so foreign, so crazy, so insane that it actually wakes us up to a deeper truth about ourselves through our cult worship of the stars themselves. We don't quite know what is happening...
23 Comments | Posted June 29, 2011 | 05:45 PM (EST)
The fact that goodness is elusory makes it all the more important to talk about.
There have been many times I wished we had left the "good" out of our title. "The Man Project" would have worked just fine. Or even "dudes," or "why," to play off our genetic code.
...3 Comments | Posted June 27, 2011 | 10:13 AM (EST)
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418 Comments | Posted June 20, 2011 | 01:00 PM (EST)
This post originally appeared on The Good Men Project
Vicki Larson and I have been having a fairly heated conversation about what ugly has to do, or not do, with a man being marrying material. Her Huffington Post column got huge attention for...
259 Comments | Posted June 17, 2011 | 12:01 PM (EST)
One of the most popular posts on Huffington Post this week, "Hot or Not? Why Women Shouldn't Pick Attractive Husbands,"claims that smart, beautiful, and financially independent women should resist the temptation to marry attractive and masculine men because they are, by definition, going to fail to be good...
12 Comments | Posted June 16, 2011 | 06:41 PM (EST)
A few weeks ago we ran into a...
13 Comments | Posted June 14, 2011 | 05:51 PM (EST)
I went to my daughter's confirmation in the Catholic Church this morning and got a lot more than I expected. I found another personal hero, along with former Sing Sing inmate Julio Medina and photojournalist Michael Kamber.
I am not Catholic. I was born Quaker and have never...
25 Comments | Posted June 14, 2011 | 12:42 PM (EST)
Perhaps the most important moment in gender politics in America occurred at a kitchen table in Chicago late in 1953. A young man named Hugh Hefner borrowed a thousand dollars from his mom to publish a magazine that was originally going to be called Stag Party. But apparently there was...
6 Comments | Posted June 13, 2011 | 02:36 PM (EST)
Here we go again:
"There's never enough time," the mother, Gloria Sheppard (Ally Walker), says. And increasingly on television, there's never enough time because men are lazy. Also, they are not that bright. And that's why women do almost all of the work at home, and the brunt of it...
Posted June 7, 2011 | 04:38 PM (EST)
The first time I heard the New Kids in person was a few months ago at a Mass Eye & Ear fundraiser. They were there to help...
11 Comments | Posted June 7, 2011 | 07:58 AM (EST)
It seems funny a guy named Weiner tried to DM an image of his erection to a young woman and mistakenly put it on his public tweet stream. He panicked, pulled it down and claimed to have been hacked when a conservative blogger got wind of the image of the...
18 Comments | Posted June 1, 2011 | 04:27 PM (EST)
This morning GMP contributor Ron Cowie emailed me the NYT review of Man with a Pan. I have to admit that I had spent the whole morning gobbling up the entire lengthy story, also in the Times, full of smut about celebrity bad boy chef Todd...
15 Comments | Posted May 31, 2011 | 04:53 PM (EST)
Chara in the Penalty Box (Photo credit: Dan4th)
I went to LA to watch the Celtics win game 4 of the 2008 Finals. I was in Fenway for the World Series in 2004. Bill Belichick went to my...
Posted August 7, 2011 | 09:25 PM (EST)