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5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds
To learn anything useful during an election year, you need to be able to sort through all of the garbage to find the actual information and insight. So let me just tell you right now that you can safely ignore any story if you follow these steps.
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5 Tips for Drinking Responsibly (While at Work)
If no one else in the office gets to drink, that means you get to be the Barry Bonds of the joint by harnessing all of alcohol's career improving benefits for yourself.
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- By Adam Tod Brown
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15 Behind the Scenes Photos That Ruin the Movie
Some in-costume, on-set photos are funny because they're out of context, some are fascinating in a behind-the-scenes sort of way, and some are neat because seeing them absolutely hurts the film from which they come. All of these are in that third category ...
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5 Gay Guys Who Got More Women Than Most Straight Men
I hold no special insight or sexuality degree, but I didn't let that stop me from writing an article about gay dudes who've had sex with a bunch of ladies.
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The 5 Most Badass Man vs. Nature Showdowns Ever Photographed
It's easy to forget how ludicrously terrifying the natural world can be, and how very small we are in the face of it. When confronted with the grand, humbling, massive and occasionally deadly power of our planet, what can one measly little human being do? Run? Cry? Not these people.
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- By Robert Brockway
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If the Avengers Were 10 Times Manlier
The Avengers are Earth's mightiest heroes: a viking god, a bipolar nerd, an alcoholic weapons dealer, and the living symbol of a country that has to borrow numbers from China in order to measure its obesity rate. This month, Man Comics is retelling The Avengers' incredible origin story-- a tale so filled with virility that it would be impolite to s
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- By Seanbaby
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7 Commonly Corrected Grammar Errors (That Aren't Mistakes)
If you've written anything on the Internet in the past 20 years or so, a short time later you've probably experienced a feeling of pure, unalloyed irritation, when you observed someone correcting your grammar. Well, now you can tell those people to shove off.
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- By Chris Bucholz
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The 5 Depressing Lessons We Learned from Highlights Magazine
I can't say for certain whether most of what Highlights taught me was intentional, but with a slogan like 'Fun with a Purpose' I have a hard time believing they did anything that wasn't deliberate.
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- By Soren Bowie
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6 Things You Won't Believe Science Can Do With DNA
Many people see DNA as something magical -- written down long ago which just tells you how things are going to be. Which is a pity, because that attitude is pretty much the opposite of science.
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- By Luke McKinney
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6 Tips for Turning Awful Fan Fiction into a Best Seller
I interned briefly as a reader at a literary agency, meaning I read hundreds of submissions -- or rather, I read several submissions wearing hundreds of masks. And I'm going to share what I learned with you.
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- By Brendan McGinley
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4 Fun Places That Are Terrifying for Awkward People
Some places, as soon as you enter them, are awkward as all hell. These places are nightmares for the socially awkward human.
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- By Daniel O'Brien
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6 Popular Upbeat Songs You Didn't Realize Are Depressing
Sure, melodies and even the occasional chorus might stick in a person's head, but the actual meaning of the song often goes unnoticed. And sometimes that's a good thing ...
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- By Adam Tod Brown
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The 5 Stages of Revenge Fantasies Every Man Has Had
Apparently, being a man is mostly about involuntary, delusional, immature power fantasies launching at the slightest provocation.
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- By Robert Brockway
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7 Things You Learn Breaking into P. Diddy's House
You can learn some valuable lessons about life, and more importantly about P. Diddy while pulling a Goldilocks on P Diddy's house.
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- By Chris Bucholz
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4 Instructional Videos No One Could Possibly Find Useful
Before information was free and plentiful, mankind was forced to slowly acquire specialized skills from VHS instructional videos.
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- By Seanbaby
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