Why Teasing Is Good for Society, and for the Soul | The Art of Manliness

In today's society, this message needs to get out... We mediate our lives through social media, in which we only present carefully curated versions of ourselves. We have less of the kind of intimate, face-to-face relationships where we can let our guard down and show all the sides of ourselves. Because we keep our flaws hidden, we …

Podcast #528: Become a More Competent Human Through Micromastery | The Art of Manliness

This is good podcast, we should never stop learning...   The author Robert Heinlein famously said: “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give …

The Best John Adams Quotes | The Art of Manliness

While figures like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington may come more readily to mind when we think of America’s revolutionary period and founding, the foremost proponent of the cause of independence was truly John Adams. Nobody made more speeches with more vigor for the side of liberty. Because of this, he was put on a …

List Of Manners And Etiquette – Social Etiquette Good Manners

Make the world a nicer place with these simple gestures. Source: List Of Manners And Etiquette - Social Etiquette Good Manners

10 Things Happy People Don’t Do | Live Happy Magazine

Here are 10 negativity traps that the happiest among us are smart enough not to fall into—and if we do, we know how to climb back out again. Source: 10 Things Happy People Don’t Do | Live Happy Magazine

Middle schooler suspended after principal sees his veterans memorial

The stupidity of the left never stops to amaze me... Really? A tribute to our military heroes and he gets an in-school suspension.... Come on! Where are the grownups? there has to be at least one in the school system that sees the stupidity of all this... I have no kids of my own, and …

Judge sets bond at $250,000 for Felicity Huffman in college bribery scandal | Daily Mail Online

The pressure of attending a university is tremendous, high school kids are force feed the lie that all must attend higher education, but this is a lie. We have created a world that devalues the trade skills and general labors. Sad really.. If you think about it.. We have been telling our kids only a …

Where is the rage? – Alpena teacher accused of sexually assaulting boy 100 -plus times

Not to make light of this in any way, but where is the outcry? The calls for justice? The same rage we hear whenever a priest is accused... Simple question... Thing about it for a second... We send our kids to school for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, not including sports or …

Smaller tax refunds mean some won’t catch up on bills | Tompor

Maybe it's time people become responsible with the money they have, and not depend on something that may not be there.  Tax refunds are not guaranteed, the law could and dose change all the time. With the extra in the pay check every week, due to the tax cuts, people should have considered the fact …

I HATE this question!

My life is not that interesting, to me anyway, others may disagree and some will agree. But to me, my life is just ordinary, nothing spectacular... So why waste others time with that... I figure, when the time is right, and the information is needed, I will state it, it will come out, sooner or later, so why bother with all that up front.