Zombies and Sleepwalkers

“Most people—95% of people—are sleepwalking through life. Life is something they see on TV. They’re just trying to get through the day. Life is something that happens to

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Linguistics Pro Tip #1: How to deal with extreme prescriptivists

If you spend long enough in a liberal arts environment or anywhere language is studied, you’ll certainly run into a few extreme prescriptivists. The basic prescriptivist mindset runs

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Life Pro Tip #9: Be Thankful

Hey hey! It’s been a while. Thanksgiving is long gone, but did you know that you can be grateful every day of the year? Gratitude is a fantastic

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Life Pro Tip #8: Do One Thing

You’re not really multi-tasking, are you? Admit it. You’re half-assing two things. Or worse yet, you’re quarter-assing four things. Unless the top two items on your agenda are

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Life Pro Tip #6: Piss Someone Off

If you’re never offending anybody, it’s a pretty good sign that you’re boring as fuck. Anybody who says anything interesting, does anything important, or takes any kind of

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Life Pro Tip #5: Douchebags also are an expression of Buddha-nature

It certainly has not escaped anyone’s notice that today’s world, despite being mostly free of tuberculosis, the bubonic plague, polio and other age-old scourges, is still not free

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Life Pro Tip #4: Be Exceptional

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone you know has dozens, and they just give them away for free. Your family, your coworkers, your friends, and even

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Life Pro Tip #3: Say NO to negativity

Many people seem to have the idea that being a “good person” involves pointing out the negative in any situation. They are psychic vampires and will stop at

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Life Pro Tip #2: Be better next time

Another life pro tip would be, Instead of being dissapointed in yourself for falling short of your expectations, just promise to be better next time.  Negative emotions are

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Austerity Pro Tip #3: Hope for reincarnation

When the CEOs of banks lose hundreds of millions of dollars in other people’s money and suddenly don’t have enough to pay their debts, the government bails them

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