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Three Aurora Victims Died Shielding Others
Sometimes on Twitter I search #realmen just to see what comes up. It’s kind of fascinating. Most of the time, the tweets are from women wishing for a particular type of boyfriend, such as “#RealMen...
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Splashing in Puddles: How to Be a Father to Your Daughter
Advice from a father of five daughters: Prioritize your daughter’s interests as if they were your own, and you will succeed at parenting. This is an excerpt from Splashing in Puddles: How to Be a...
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Control the Ammo, Not the Guns
Eric Sentell argues that regulating ammunition would be more effective—and acceptable to gun-owners—than regulating the guns themselves. Each time a man massacres people, society hopelessly asks an...
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Write On, Malala! [Video]
Malala Yousafzai, the girl who was shot by Taliban, stands again. Shots rang out on the school bus. One bullet grazed her brain and one split through her neck. Less than two weeks later she is “ …...
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Corporate Firefighters
Kevin Buckholtz’s workplace is not on fire. So why are his co-workers always “putting out fires”? I work in a place that is not on fire. Aside from the fluorescent lights we sit under all day, and the...
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Diary of a Gay Skinhead
Brotherhood means answering when your friend has the courage to ask. A excerpt from Pedro Serrano’s book, Pride—Diary of a Gay Skinhead. I felt naked. The 27 degree wind seemed to pass through my...
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International Men’s Day 2012
Helping men and boys live longer, happier, healthier lives. Hundreds of thousands of men commit suicide every year. Men die sooner than women, and poor men die sooner than rich men. Poor education is...
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#50: Houseguest
#50: Houseguest The fire started with a space heater in the room where two-month-old Tamryn Cook slept. Jason Hood was staying with the family of Mark Holston, Tamryn’s grandfather and guardian. One...
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Letter to J., Who I Used to Mentor
Michael Copperman finds that the right moment to mentor usually comes on the way to somewhere else. Dear J., I’m glad to get the opportunity to write you this letter—I don’t see you as often now, only...
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Cockfighters and Poets
What the cockfighter and the artist have in common is what they put on the line. “Jeff, you can either be a poet or not. There is no in between.” —The Girl Who Could Not Touch the Ground Those were...
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Toy Soldiers, Real Guns
Poet Robert Peake asks us to look at war, nihilism and love to start the healing. “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti To talk about...
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Gun Dreams
In our fantasies, a gun ends all arguments in our favor. When I was nineteen years old, I took a job as a prison guard in the Middlesex County House of Correction. At that time, the prison was an old...
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Malala’s Miracle & The Road Ahead
Her bravery has created the practical inspiration that leads to real change. The world is still celebrating the great news that came in with the New Year: 15-year-old education activist Malala...
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Iris: The Story of a Polio Mother
The story of a boy from Hardscrabble, Illinois, and his courageous mother. I suppose the first memory I have of her was when I was about 5. We were sitting on the bathroom floor, and I was crying. My...
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Heroes and Heroines
Men, could you hold down the fort while your wife braved the storm to rescue a stranded family member? A few days ago, there was a terrible snowstorm. My home was pretty much cut off in a torrential...
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What Are You Prepared to Do?
In case of a violent attack, J. A. Drew Diaz says that it’s time to embrace the corollary to the Boy Scout motto: be prepared to fight back. Hmmmmm. Police Now Advise Assertive Response to Mass...
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If They Were Somebody. They Are Somebody.
Caring deeply for Guantánamo Bay detainees is not un-American. Another anniversary of 9/11 comes and goes. We light candles and remember the fallen. The anger within many of us is temporarily...
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#51:The Man in the Cowboy Hat
Two senseless tragedies, one heroic father: Carlos Arredondo. #51:The Man in the Cowboy Hat As of this reporting, no one knows why bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon on Patriot’s Day, April 15,...
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The Aftermath: What I Learned from the Boston Bombings
Lisa Hickey was changed by the bombings, in unexpected ways. Here, she shares how. — The first bomb went off at 2:50 pm on Monday, April 15, 2013 at the finish line of The Boston Marathon. I was...
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“In culture, acts of heroism or valor are expected of men, but in reality...
This is a comment by Shalom Ormsby on the post “The Aftermath: What I Learned from the Boston Bombings“. Shalom Ormsby said: First of all, I’m so glad that you and your family are okay. I can only...
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