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Watching Sports With Your Girlfriend
Last night, I watched the second episode of The Onion’s new Comedy Central series, SportsDome. The first episode started off strong, but fell off the tracks with a segment in which announcers picked...
View ArticleThe 10 at 10
1. What’s a muzzle lashing, you ask? 2. Our nation’s college education: a map. 3. Your penis shape: an explanation. 4. Lunch breaks: a defense. 5. Who wrote Wikipedia? 6. George Clooney might...
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The 10 at 10
Omigosh, a 10 at 10 on a Saturday? Your eyes aren’t fooling you. 1. How pickle juice changed sports forever. 2. Mama Grizzly Inc.? 3. Official protocol for when the aliens arrive. 4. This halftime...
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The 10 at 10
1. Mike Tyson picks the Oscar winners. 2. Gay fans want separate seats. 3. Why don’t we like cricket? 4. Never leave your kids alone. 5. Homophobia immersion therapy. 6. Um, this needs to fail. 7. If...
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On #Abandonment, Be It of Yard or Blog
With guys like John Steigerwald gainfully employed, David Matthews wonders where the jobs are for the left-brained sportswriter. It’s fitting that in the week that Josh Zerkle stepped down from his...
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“My dad was shot in a drug deal when I was five. The only thing more cliche...
“My version of being black adheres as much to the stereotypes as it dramatically breaks from them,” he writes inHow to Be Black. “And that’s probably true for most of you reading this: if not about...
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Humorless Feminists and Misogynist Republicans?
Joanna Schroeder wonders if The Onion is doing damage to both men and women when joking about female voters having silly crushes on Republican Candidates. There’s a stereotype out there about...
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“Legitimate Rape,” Moral Consistency, and Degrees of Sexual Harm
Brian Earp offers a critical analysis of not just Todd Akin, but also of his critics. Originally appeared at Practical Ethics Should abortions be allowed in the case of rape? Republican Todd...
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Checking Athletes’ Privilege
Mike Kasdan takes a hard look at the roots of the privilege we confer on star athletes, and its devastating effect on society. — Join @GoodMenProject and the #GMPSports Team for a #GMPChat TwitterChat...
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You Are Not Your Job
If work isn’t your source of identity, what is? _____ I recently read an article about Matthew Bowers. In the article, Matthew was expressing his concern about what he referred to as an “alarming...
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Signs of a Concussion Include Feeling Like You're Perfectly Fine
In yet another brilliant comedic stroke, The Onion (everyone’s favorite fake news source in a world where the “real news” is increasingly, oh, I dunno, fake) presents a detailed walk-through of how...
View ArticleThe Onion Reports: Obama Releases 500,000 Good Men From U.S. Strategic...
The Onion News Network hilariously hypothesizes a world where President Obama has a secret underground facility filled with a stockpile of highly trained “good men” skilled in the arts of noticing new...
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Study of the Day: The Health Benefits of Celebrity Magazines
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...
View ArticleThe 10 at 10: November 11
1. Activists want U.S. bookstores to follow Britain’s lead and move Bush’s memoir to the crime section. 2. We vote to “receive extrinsic benefits from voting that are unrelated to the chances that...
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Masculinity: An Onion Retrospective
We were pretty happy when we found this. Behold! The top 10 stories on masculinity from satirical newspaper The Onion over the last decade. If giant-yogurt rodeos are involved, we’re game. Nation’s...
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Watching Sports With Your Girlfriend
Last night, I watched the second episode of The Onion’s new Comedy Central series, SportsDome. The first episode started off strong, but fell off the tracks with a segment in which announcers picked...
View ArticleThe 10 at 10
1. What’s a muzzle lashing, you ask? 2. Our nation’s college education: a map. 3. Your penis shape: an explanation. 4. Lunch breaks: a defense. 5. Who wrote Wikipedia? 6. George Clooney might...
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The 10 at 10
Omigosh, a 10 at 10 on a Saturday? Your eyes aren’t fooling you. 1. How pickle juice changed sports forever. 2. Mama Grizzly Inc.? 3. Official protocol for when the aliens arrive. 4. This halftime...
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The 10 at 10
1. Mike Tyson picks the Oscar winners. 2. Gay fans want separate seats. 3. Why don’t we like cricket? 4. Never leave your kids alone. 5. Homophobia immersion therapy. 6. Um, this needs to fail. 7. If...
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On #Abandonment, Be It of Yard or Blog
With guys like John Steigerwald gainfully employed, David Matthews wonders where the jobs are for the left-brained sportswriter. It’s fitting that in the week that Josh Zerkle stepped down from his...
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