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Destroy the Palm Trees - Five Reasons Why Palm Trees Need To Go Away

    I'm here to tell you about a vegetable menace that is the AIDS of the plant world. If you live in most parts of North America, these plants have you surrounded.  They're butt-ugly brown sticks thrusting phallically into the sky in unnatural rows, crowned by a spidery fright-wig of spikes. They look like a raspberry on a stick.        I'm talking, of course, about the omnipresent palm tree, found everywhere in your city. It doesn't matter what you hate, this tree embodies it.  The palm tree is the…
Score: 17.19

How To Build An EDH Deck For Magic: The Gathering

      Ready For Commander?  Commander, also called "EDH" (stands for "Elder Dragon Highlander," an outdated in-joke), is the most popular format of the collectible trading card game Magic: The Gathering, counting over-all formats.  While EDH doesn't appear much in competitive formats when the tournament is over, and the last booster box handed out, look for the players to be huddled up in the corner over a Commander game.  It has every reason to be popular; it is the only MTG format created entirely by the…
Score: 9.55

Thailand VS Philippines in language, culture, money, and love

Moving to Thailand or the Philippines and how the English language, cultural influence, cost of living, and relationships could affect your choices.        It is never as easy as choosing a pros and cons list or just doing what works for others.    If one is considering the possibility of moving to Asia and becoming an official Expatriate (or expat for short), two popular choices are:   Moving to Thailand Moving to the Philippines   I use these two more specifically because I have lived in both countries.  In…
Score: 5.27

Best Magic! the Gathering Sealed Products - A Guide to Strategic Investment in Magic: The Gathering

      "Many Magic: The Gathering players ask the question…" Don't you ever get tired of mocking the Professor of Tolarian Community College with that opening? The answer is no, we don't. Even though we love the Professor, and this post is partly inspired by his YouTube channel's content, he's just irresistible to mimic. Not to mention, if he were here reading this, he would probably disagree with the majority of what we're going to be saying here.  The Professor, spoiler alert, usually poops on Wizards…
Score: 4.68

Complete Guide Magic: The Gathering EDH Commanders You Will Never Get Tired Of Playing

    Over and over again, the number one question you see in any MTG:EDH forum is "What commander should I build next?"  Commander, the most casual and fun format of Magic: The Gathering, is a bit more involved than other formats. You have to build a 100-card deck, and every card has to be unique except for basic lands. Plus it allows anything - barring a short ban list - from any expansion set over the years; the game is rapidly approaching its 30th anniversary. So it has one of the biggest available…
Score: 3.55

Sexual Practices

Sex toys are very good for the relationship

by Dominus

While the use of sex toys has seen an increase in public acceptance in the last years, they still have a stigma attached to them, which has to do with the older generations’ mentality that a man and a woman don’t need anything else in bed but each other. I agree, but throw a couple of sex toys in there as well and you got yourself a party.   Sex toys have been used since forever. This is nothing new, but as I was growing up the idea of people using such “vile contraptions” in bed was unthinkable…
Score: 1.28
American Progressive History

US Capitol Insurrection 1/6/2021 : Why the South Will Fall Again

  The United States is still in shock after the January 6th attempt to storm the US capitol and overthrow the government. Indeed, the whole world has the jitters about the incident. Remember, the United States is still the world's leading military power, a cornerstone of the global economy, and one of the most manifested current democracies in the world. What happens in America affects every nation on Earth, at least through our foreign policy if nothing else.         Your humble author has kept his…
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Violance and Trauma

A Letter from the Voiceless

The day you broke me wasn't the day you attacked me. The day you broke me wasn't the days, weeks or months that followed. The day you broke me wasn't even the hours upon hours I spent crying in my shower. The day you broke me was far worse than any of that... and I can't rid myself of that feeling. I can't take back how small, scared, or broken I felt the minute you came strolling back into my life as if nothing was wrong. As if you had never done all of those horrible things... and I was just…
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World History

Notre Dame Will Be Restored. Look At How These Destroyed Buildings And Cities Came Back

The tragic fire which devastated the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is seen as a symbol of the loss of civilization as a whole by many. But the beloved church, like many historic buildings and structures throughout the world, knows the touch of wanton destruction throughout the centuries. Now that the funding for Notre Dame reaches over $1 billion dollars, there will be no problem with its famed being placed at some point in the future.    A Parisian history of catastrophes By definition, Notre Dame…
Score: 1.06
Netflix

Review Of Altered Carbon

I've been watching a new show on Netflix called Altered Carbon. It's based on a book by Richard K. Morgan and takes place in a futuristic society where rich people can live for hundreds of years (or possibly forever). A new technology has allowed people to be implanted with a disk called a "stack" in the back of their neck which stores their personality and memories. When your body dies, as long as your stack is still intact, it can be put into another body. When someone is put in prison, their…
Score: 1.28
Dystopian Novels

Why Do We Force-Feed Dystopian Literature To Students?

      If you can read this, you're not living in a dystopia!  You know how teenagers end up so negative, depressed, and pessimistic?  Maybe it's because we shove gloom and doom down their throats as part of their required reading. In the United States, George Orwell's mid-20th-century dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is heavily picked by teachers as required reading for students, and the blues don't end there.        Here is a list of required reading titles for American high schools, let's see how negative…
Score: 3.25
Smart Phones

SHOULD PARENTS RESTRICT THE USE OF MOBILE PHONES?

   SHOULD PARENTS RESTRICT THE USE OF MOBILE PHONES?       A sea of young heads slouches forward lazily, as their eyes fervently remained glued to the screens of their mobile phones, while others take selfies of themselves and/or their friends for posting on various social media. Others are busy texting away and are emotionally and mentally detached from their friends and appear to be oblivious to what is happening around them. And that fact is made evident by the cord of the earpiece that is firmly…
Score: 1.55
Amazon

Are You Ready For Amazon Prime Day?

  Amazon prime day 2019, July 15th and 16th  A mote back we put up our guide to US holidays for the benefit of people from other countries, so you can tell whether your American staff need the day off or not. But one day got left off the calendar because it's such a new concept that has yet to be fully recognized. That day is Amazon Prime Day. It's a new kind of "holiday" being pushed by Amazon as a kind of Internet shopping festival.  This year, they even decided to do a full blowout by having a…
Score: 1.06
Imposter Syndrome Among Entrepreneurs

'Eliminate Imposter Syndrome'

‘How did I get this position?’ ‘How did I trick the jury panel to hire me?’ ‘What would happen if they realize that I am not capable and perfect fit for this vacancy?’ ‘Oh God! I feel like I am a fraud’   Have you ever been pinched by such thoughts? such questions? If yes! Then you are not alone in this. A huge proportion of population, specifically entrepreneurs, suffer from this syndrome which is recognized as ‘Imposter Syndrome’. Imposter Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon which tricks your…
Score: 1.28
Film and TV

In The Shadow Of A Tall Mouse - Disney's Real Monopoly Game

  Recently the excellent post by OldFashionedMillenial, titled "Is Disney Monopolizing Hollywood?," has been getting a lot of hits and general buzz. So the Editors That Be asked the Present Author to weigh in.  What a fortunate pass this is because I happen to have a lot on my mind about Disney. See, I grew up in Southern California, in the south of L.A., and quite a bit of my time was spent in Anaheim, California, home to Disneyland itself. My step-dad worked there as a night engineer. He'd score…
Score: 1.28

Why Frozen is So Important

Ever since I was little, I lived for storytime.   Whether done through voice, animated cartoon, or something I created inside my own mind, the process of crafting a story and giving someone an experience in some made believes realm where everything can happen and happy ever afters are just over the horizon. And if anyone was good at peddling an idyllic make-believe world for children and adults alike, it’s Disney.   Disney got ahead of literally everyone else when they animated almost every…
Score: 1.26

Sound and Fear: An Examination of "A Quiet Place"

I will start by saying that I am a fan of Psychological Thrillers, not anything involving horror. Unfortunately, however, recently those two genres seem to be hand in hand. Despite this, there is one film that has made waves across the board with thriller spectators; which surprised everyone when it’s author was a man who up until this point has almost exclusively been known for his comedic talents.     Could this film be the start of a whole new era for the psychological thriller genre, or is it…
Score: 1.13