In your blizzardy Monday media column: rumored layoffs at Men's Health , David Simon is righteously angry again, Ladies Home Journal's integrity—its most valuable asset, next to yarn—is questioned, and more! A tipster tells us that "Men's Health and Women's Health are merging advertising...

FEMALE RUDDERS:Gender disparities within Democracy are larger than commonly understood. (Beware reading this essay, it could destroy your faith in politics.) Boyish prows on the ship of state “Biology is not destiny� Simone de Beauvoir Despite appearances to the contrary our liberal democracies ...

What’s the difference between sperm samples and discarded toenails? Answer: A landmark case in the UK has ruled the former is still a man’s property. Sperm samples - given by the men after they were warned by doctors that chemotherapy might damage their fertility - were the property of t...

By Christopher Gabriel , CGabriel.com WARNING: The following 1120 words have been approved for all reading audiences by the Council for a Healthier Colon.  If you need to leave this post at any time due to feeling uncomfortable, rest assured you are not nearly as uncomfortable as I was during my 2...

The eleventh-annual ranking of the fittest and fattest cities was recently released by Men’s Health magazine, and it may surprise you to learn that the Mecca for bikini-clad beauties, Miami, is actually the most unfit city in these United States. Why Miami made the cut The magazine came to this co...

Once again, it's time for that periodic feature, when I do a vanity search under my name to find recently published interviews I've given to various print mags.  I do so many interviews, I've long since lost the will to keep track of them myself, but thanks to google, I can usually dig out some of ...

I’ve been ranting about this on twitter, but most of you aren’t there. I’m completely bemused, gobsmacked, and hornswoggled by Nicola Roxon’s new Men’s Health Ambassadors. They might not be salaried, but they’re going to get their travel expenses paid as they go a...

What are some of the big issues facing gay men’s health? On today’s show we’ve got the fabulous Jim Pickett- director of Advocacy for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and blogger for Lifelube, the gay men’s health blog. Jim is back from the National Gay Men’s Health Summi...

"Not a Moment Too Soon, I Thought of Tim Russert" by Michael Bicks of the New York Times. (July 8, 2008) Christopher Hitchens, naturally, has a take-down of those who would lionize a dead man and heap sentiment on the fact of his death. (E-mails entitled "The Russert Miracles" and plaintive whimpers...

Hey, don’t kill the messenger here. Apparently, researches have proven that Men Die First. Here’s a description from the book, Why Men Die First by Marianne Legato :  Dr. Legato shows how the forces of culture and biology conspire against male mortality. Drawing on the latest resear...