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What is friendship?

I don’t count many bad days with friends. Of course, there are life’s shitstorms—and friends are there in “good times and in bad.” (Kinda like wives). But friends—ones worth keeping and doing life’s time with—do their best not to cause shitstorms for each other. Tweet

How to Establish a Realistic Home Budget

Budgeting your money is the master plan of a planned life. Here’s how to take control of your cash and live a financially secure life.

Meet The Self-Help Guru Who Thinks Self-Help Sucks

There are many reasons why we hate self-help books, but one of the biggest is that self-help gurus only seem able to succeed if they prove to you that you suck and they don’t—this guy is the exception.

“Sorry” Accepted: A No-Handshake Forgiveness for Louie CK

How is it that CNN's Jeffrey Toobin gets caught on Zoom pleasuring himself in front of his work colleagues and gets a six-month time-out (and is now back on the air), while LCK is apparently banned for life. Ironic? No. it’s despotic.

Douché! Let’s Keep it Clean

Want to come out of a conflict smelling like a rosé? Douché!

The Guy List: Treats! Magazine

Once, 'Playboy' was considered the most sophisticated men's magazine in America. Then came 'Treats!'

The Best Martial Arts for Every Goal

Want to bring a higher level of fitness to both your body and your mind? If so, here's how to choose a martial art that will give you greater control, greater confidence in a fight, greater balance — and maybe even give you the thrill of breaking a few boards.

Steel is improved by laying on damp ground, and the rusty razor gets a keener edge after giving its dross to the dirt in which it has been allowed to lie neglected and forgotten. In like manner, too, humanity, though it lay among the ports, covered with the dust of neglect and poverty, may still retain the divine impulse and the element of improvement and progress.

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By Frederick Douglass, Self-Made Men