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How To Turn Your Fears Into Advantages

Thanks to global pandemics, belligerent nation-states with long-range missiles, and civic unrest right here at home, we’re constantly reminded that most things in the world are out of our control. This lack of control makes us fearful, which clouds our perspectives and impacts our decisions–often for the worse. If we instead learn to identify, analyze, and face our fears, we can use them to…

Easily Speed Up Your WooCommerce Website With 3 Free Plugins– I’ll Show You How

Note: This article assumes you’re using Google Chrome as your browser, which includes the Lighthouse module. Using a different browser? Try a website like GTMetrix.com to get similar information.

Unless you’re paying for dedicated hosting or a content delivery network, WooCommerce-enabled WordPress websites can be slow. This WILL cost you sales. Optimizing your pictures and enabling caching…

After A 5-Year Hiatus, I Must Regretfully Inform You Of The Following…

By Eric S. Streeter

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What a disastrous half-decade for me to abandon blogging! Oh, the zingers you missed. The off-color innuendo you, unknowingly, avoided having stuffed into your tender minds. All this time your precious attention has been sadly diverted from my useless prattling, replaced by propaganda and lies “shared & liked” to you by so-called…

Are The Marks In The Streets Around Lebanon, MO The Mark Of Aliens?

By Eric S. Streeter

I wrote this article back in 2016, which was published in my local newspaper shortly afterward. They didn’t bother to tell me that. You have to actually subscribe to, or at least read, their newspaper to learn such things. Who knew?

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Dear Editor of the Lebanon Daily Record,

Lately I’ve been seeing strange black signs burned into local back roads and…

What Your Google Searches Say About You (Might Be Horrifying)

Once upon a time, I subcontracted for Google as a search-engine evaluator. During this time I learned a great deal about what people search for online, and unwittingly gained far too much insight into the kind of twisted minds behind many queries. As a result, whenever I search nowadays, I always glance at Google’s suggestions. Since these come from popular previous searches, they provide…

I’ll Never Vote For Him, But I Hope Trump Changes Everything

Unlike Hillary Clinton, I don’t pretend to know what makes half of Trump’s supporters tick. As far as the other half goes, I suspect equal amounts of alcohol and fear might be partly to blame. But blame can be a tricky thing, and I strive to be objective, so I’m forced to admit that his supporters could just be regular people like you and I. However, when it comes to Trump himself, my objectivity…

The Sandbox Tree Isn’t Satisfied Until It Explodes In Your Face

Wanted for crimes against humanity: Real name: Hura crepitans. Aka: Sandbox tree. Aka: Possumwood. Aka: Jabillo. Aka: Dynamite Tree. Aka: Monkey No-Climb With that many AKA’s, you just know the Sandbox tree is a trouble-making thug. Don’t be suckered in by its innocent-sounding name, or its bad-boy looks; just stay as far away as possible. After all, this thug is covered in spikes, causes…

Who Needs Elephants and Tigers When We Still Have Giant F’king Pandas?

Goodbye elephants and gorillas, pangolins and tigers, leopards and leatherback turtles. You were cool, we guess, though not nearly cool enough to keep us from destroying your habitats and hunting you into oblivion. Some might say that humans are to blame for your impending doom, but I’m pretty sure it’s your fault. After all, you were in the way of our new fields and subdivisions, you tasted…

Should You Gamble on an Expert? Depends On How Much You’re Willing To Lose

If you’ve ever had to do something you normally wouldn’t because nobody else was willing, I bet you suddenly gained a great deal of respect for the experts in the field. Imagine cleaning out your clogged toilet, or installing a water heater. Would you enjoy replacing the head gasket on your car? Would you embrace designing and building your own aquaponics system, or your family’s home? Maybe you…

No Carpet-Munching In Indian Airports, And 6 Other Failures To Communicate

Signs are meant to convey important, possibly life-saving information to their readers. But in a global economy that spans so many different languages and dialects, translating warnings from one tongue to another sometimes proves tricky — especially when whoever’s doing the translating isn’t very good at their job.  The bright side of these failures-to-communicate is that they often prove…

The Robot Dinosaur Is Real, And It Will Improve Your Life (If It Doesn’t Kill You)

Technology has advanced rapidly in the past few hundred years, but only in just the last few decades has the pace of discovery accelerated to such a point that it seems like tomorrow, anything could be possible. If we continue advancing at our current rate, how long before we invent something we can’t control, and unleash a monster that spells our doom? If humanity’s final battle winds up being…

Blame The Damn Elephants

If some people were honest, they’d admit most of their hardships are caused by their own selfishness, ignorance, laziness, and greed- not the fault of someone else. Such honesty is hard for people with sensitive egos to embrace, so instead they play “the victim”. This makes it easier to deflect criticism of their actions and shirk responsibility for their mistakes. We all know too many people…

An Update To Kasha’s (Failed) Presidential Bid

My fellow Americans, I bear troubling news. No, not that D-Trump is now the official Republican nominee- that’s too troubling for even I to bear speaking about. Instead, the tragic burden I must share with you today is that, for all intents and purposes, Kasha (my dog), will not in fact become our next President. Kindly contain your heartbroken wailing and gnashing of teeth until the end of the…

We All Have A Powerful Sixth Sense; Here’s Proof You’re Using It Right Now

We usually only think about having 5 major senses: taste, touch, hearing, sight, and smell. These senses are so important to our daily lives, and to how we experience the world around us, that we almost never pay them any mind. At least, not until we lose one. But saying there is only 5 senses ignores the obvious truth: There’s a sixth major sense- one you’re using it this very moment. And if you…

Shocking (Real) News – Potheads Prefer Pot To Apples

Science is Awesome. Without it, I wouldn’t be able to hurl my words into the digital abyss with such utter abandon, and you wouldn’t be able to read them on a tiny, bacteria-laden brick made of plastic and metal. Probably because most of use would have died of infection already. But for all the benefits science has given us, the process of actually designing scientific experiments is hard, and…

Why You Should Vote For Kasha (my dog) For President

For America, a change in leadership is fast approaching. We as a people don’t agree on most things, but we all expect the same thing from a new leader: a solution to all our problems. Of course, that’s not going to happen in a world where one man’s problem is another man’s birthright, and wars are fought over who has the best mythology, or sits on the best ground. None of our presidential…

A Whisper In The Woods: Part 2

Read Part 1 here Ghostly voices buzzed about the edges of Sharon’s perception like swarming insects; out-of-place and impossible to understand. They grated against her nerves like a million leaking faucets made of screaming infants. She felt a hot stab of pain inside her skull, and, resigning herself to an exceedingly poorly-timed migraine, she turned her attention back to the inexplicable…