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Posted October 3, 2014
It doesn’t take the greatest imagination in order to remember a time period when everyone didn’t know what kale and quinoa. Really, if you stepped into a time machine and traveled back about ten years, you’d be able to find most of the country not knowing what those two things were. But then, because of
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Posted October 2, 2014
Old school Letterman fans who remember when his show was actually funny probably remember Calvert Deforest, aka Larry ?Bud? Melman, a weird little guy who looked like Patton Oswalt’s Dorian Gray portrait and was hilariously out of place by design. Younger readers who don’t know what the hell I’m talking about will soon learn, because
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Posted September 29, 2014
Food knowledge is always a dicey proposition. What the doctors believe will kill you one day is seen as something that your body MUST HAVE the next in order to survive. We’re always learning more and more things, and as we are, those things begin to contradict one another. Which is why there are certain
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Posted September 28, 2014
As we know from previous Self Made Man articles about online cartoonists and other artists whose work lives on the Internet, a lot of them stay afloat through merchandise sales; t-shirts, messenger bags, coffee mugs, etc. Retail management is its own business though, and it’s safe to say that a lot of professional artists either
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Posted September 27, 2014
In my other TSB column, Awesome Men Throughout History, we looked at the strange but ultimately successful career of Bernarr MacFadden, a health and fitness guru who got Americans thinking about their longterm health in a more serious, goal-oriented way. I’d considered labeling him a Self Made Man, but two things stopped me: a) he
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Posted September 15, 2014
Here’s the thing about money: It’s not going to buy you happiness. That’s the thing that we learned from The Beatles way back when. But here’s the problem with that sentiment. When John and Paul were singing about that, they had a whole lot of money. So of course they weren’t worry about happiness. They
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Posted September 12, 2014
As far as bottled waters go, a whole lot of them are a scam. Basically, all they’re doing is taking water from the tap of some other country, putting it through some very faint and barely noticeable filter, and sticking it into a bottle so they can sell it for three bucks a pop to
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