By Chad Love

As well-read, worldly and sophisticated as I obviously am, I've never been a big fan of Esquire magazine. Mostly because - like most of the genre -  it's little more than a monthly instruction manual on how to be a well-coiffed nice-smelling, perfectly-accessorized, smartly-dressed narcissistic tool.

By Dave Hurteau

From Fox News:

Is your iPhone or iPod Touch a bit too, well, artsy? Not rugged or manly enough for your taste?

Here's the solution: the Bulletflight ballistics calculator, which predicts the trajectory of bullets fired from high-powered sniper rifles by taking into account half a dozen variables including wind speed, distance, outside temperature and altitude.

By Scott Bestul

From the Washington Post:

With its creeks, ponds and long Potomac River shoreline, Marine Corps Base Quantico has some of the best duck-hunting sites in Prince William County. A new partnership with the group Ducks Unlimited aims to make those sites accessible to all Marines.

By Dave Hurteau

From the Independent Record:

The Obama Administration has frozen the Department of Interior effort to take gray wolves off the list of animals protected under the Endangered Species Act in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes regions.