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Emerson Dameron
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Hurt People Hurt People — Them’s the Rules

If you don’t like it, try masochism — It hurts to get hurt. I’d be happier had it never happened. But now it’s too late, and there’s too much pain in circulation to wish it away. …

Humor

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Hurt People Hurt People — Them’s the Rules
Hurt People Hurt People — Them’s the Rules
Humor

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Thought Thinkers

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This is Your Final Warning to Relax

If you can’t calm down, you can expect consequences — You seem tense, as though you’re about to freak the hell out for no reason. It’s making me feel concerned for you and the rest of us, especially me. You need to either let yourself relax or relax under duress because if you don’t cool down immediately, it’s all going…

Humor

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This is Your Final Warning to Relax
This is Your Final Warning to Relax
Humor

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MuddyUm

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Let’s Make This a Safe and Productive Midlife Crisis

You’re free to fall apart — as long as you keep it together — “Having a midlife crisis is expensive.” — Gail Sheedy No gratitude practice or fish oil supplement can hold back the ravages of time. As you hit 40 or 50, you may lose enthusiasm for things you used to love — such as work, sex, or remaining alive. The good times…

Midlife Crisis

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Let’s Make This a Safe and Productive Midlife Crisis
Let’s Make This a Safe and Productive Midlife Crisis
Midlife Crisis

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MuddyUm

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All the Life Advice You’ll Ever Need

Read it, live it, do it — The following article contains all the life advice you’ll ever need. When you finish reading it, you’ll be ready for anything life has to throw at you and you won’t have to read any more articles. Know yourself You have to spend a lot of time in your own company, so it’s…

Humor

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All the Life Advice You’ll Ever Need
All the Life Advice You’ll Ever Need
Humor

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MuddyUm

·1 day ago

When You’ve Loved and Lost, Learn Your Lesson

True love is once in a lifetime — and that’s more than enough — Falling in love is an essential part of the human experience. It’s the emotional motherlode, a fireworks display of feelings in every color of a box of crayons bigger than the sky. It begins with a soaring sense of optimism and jaunty joie de vivre. It helps us learn who…

Humor

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When You’ve Loved and Lost, Learn Your Lesson
When You’ve Loved and Lost, Learn Your Lesson
Humor

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Sex and Satire

·2 days ago

Let’s All Start Having Sex Again!

Turn off your mind, relax, and tap that ass — Americans are having less sex, which means we’re not having enough, which would be the maximum allowable amount of sex. No one knows precisely why. It’s attributed to a confluence of factors, including stress, apps, and the fact that we all hate each other and have maybe five years before…

Sex

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Let’s All Start Having Sex Again!
Let’s All Start Having Sex Again!
Sex

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Seen on Screen

·5 days ago

The Comic Brilliance and Tragic Artistry of ‘Cunk On Earth’

To reveal the world, lighten up — “The ‘content’ of any medium is always another medium.” — Marshall McLuhan “Can anyone really claim to know what happened in the past, when the past itself doesn’t exist anymore?” — Philomena Cunk Earth is a planet 94.267 miles from the center of its solar system, recently defiled as a…

Television

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The Comic Brilliance and Tragic Artistry of ‘Cunk On Earth’
The Comic Brilliance and Tragic Artistry of ‘Cunk On Earth’
Television

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In for a Penny

·May 24

7 Reasons You May Be a Radical Agnostic (Or Not)

Own your unknowns — “Nobody knows anything.” — William Goldman The longer I live, the less sure I am of what I believe about life, the universe, or anything. I’m not religious, even when I’m having a panic attack, but I also find atheism too strong a commitment. The only thing I’m 99% sure…

Radical Agnosticism

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7 Reasons You May Be a Radical Agnostic (Or Not)
7 Reasons You May Be a Radical Agnostic (Or Not)
Radical Agnosticism

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MuddyUm

·Apr 11

I’m Better Than You — and That’s Okay!

I’ll always be better, and it's all for the best — Your hostility leaks like a gaseous emission. Cognitive dissonance, psychological projection, and envious self-talk make your eye twitch. The gallons of Haterade you consume seep out through your pores. It’s a bad look. You’re better than this, although that doesn’t mean you’re better than me. …

Napwritingcontest

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I’m Better Than You — and That’s Okay!
I’m Better Than You — and That’s Okay!
Napwritingcontest

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Black Bear

·Mar 31

If You Quit Drinking and Your Partner Doesn’t

I hope it goes better for you — I married my drinking buddy. Then I had to stop drinking. It was inconvenient. Well, I didn’t have to stop drinking. I had a choice. I got fired and went on a two-week bender that ended when my pancreas exploded. A doctor told me that I could either stop drinking…

Addiction Recovery

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If You Quit Drinking and Your Partner Doesn’t
If You Quit Drinking and Your Partner Doesn’t
Addiction Recovery

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