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Posted May 21, 2013
I think I?ve come to a realization that the only thing less interesting than someone telling you a poker story would be someone telling you a story about a card trick. ?So, this guy wanders over to my table as I?m eating dinner and tells me to pick a card, any card. So, I pick
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Posted May 21, 2013
There’s been an inexcusable dearth of inventors in my Awesome Men Throughout History column, but fear not! I’m about to fix that by writing about Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr., who invented a whole bunch of stuff and was a fleshly embodiment of awesome manhood.
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Posted May 20, 2013
One of the best decisions of our life was, one day, about five years ago, quitting our job just to work freelance full-time. It was a risk — at that time we weren’t making nearly enough to survive — but the thought process was that we could work for ourselves, whenever we want, and maybe
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Posted May 16, 2013
One of the hottest trends in adventure sports right now is the GORUCK Challenge. What exactly is it? GORUCK, at it?s core, is a team-based adventure challenge modeled after military selection events and military training. The GORUCK company is lead by Jason McCarthy, former Army Special Forces (aka Green Beret), and he created the Challenge
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Posted May 16, 2013
Any TSB readers south of the Mason-Dixon have passed by Waffle Houses plenty of times on the highway, and I bet most of you have eaten in one at least once. Lord knows I have; I grew up in North Carolina, where it seems like there’s a Waffle House every fifty feet. Yes, whether you’re
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Posted May 14, 2013
Two things tend to spring toward my lips and out my mouth when I hear eloquent alliterative elocution. The first is the make-believe world of Marvel Comics where Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, Matt Murdock, Scott Summers, Warren Worthington III, Sue Storm and Reed Richards roam the fantastical pages of adventure. Out of those aliases spring
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Posted May 9, 2013
I shouldn?t wonder why I didn?t find my love of the outdoors while I was a Boy Scout. Most of my memories involve either missing home (because my good friends weren?t a part of my troop), peeing on things with a bunch of other boys, only taking one dump for a week while at summer
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Posted May 9, 2013
The last time Whole Foods co-founder/former CEO John Mackey made the news, it was for his controversial statements about global warming and Obama’s health care plan. Take those however you will, but there’s more to Mackey than that. The story of how Whole Foods became the Starbucks of organic food (and I mean that in
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