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My blog is Simmys-corner.blogspot.com.

However my blog is very mature rated. It is over the top and occasionally offensive. The only goal is humor. Almost nothing should be taken seriously.

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Education > Education (Other) Should the school year be lengthened?: 4 of 28

One of the major talks of the news these days is of Obama's plans to lengthen the school year, because he claims that the children do not get enough of an education from the current schooling year. He cites the schooling records of other, leading countries such as Japan and Sweden, which both have school years that are quite...
Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes Are certain music genres scapegoats for violent behavior?: 4 of 23

Whenever an act of violence occurs in a seemingly normal setting, such as a school, people are always looking for something to blame it on. One of the most common focuses for this blame is music. The "experts" examine all the things that went on in the individual's life and try to find a culprit for the freakish display of v...
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Culture & Community How playing MMORPGs can become an addiction: 2 of 10

Once upon a time I was a major gamer. I started out with the normal home gaming systems, Nintendo, The Playstation. Eventually I moved on to computer gaming. But it was still a few years before I encountered my first MMORPG, Runescape. A friend of mine introduced it to me, and together we quickly climbed in level and reputat...
Health & Fitness > Addiction Is addiction to alcohol or drugs a disease?: 10 of 35

Claiming that addiction is a disease is a cop out. This is coming from a current and former addict. For a large part of my younger years, from the ages of about 12 to the age of 17 I was an addict of caffeine. Some people may not find that to be as big of a deal as a crack or heroin addiction, but it is just as real and, in ...
Creative Writing > Humor When "humor" is not funny: 5 of 16

When is humor not funny? When the joke is over the top, done with bad timing, unnecessary or just downright stupid. Many times a normally humorous joke can come across as crass or bad when done in a certain setting, or at a certain time. Humor is used to create a good feeling in a person and so everyone should strive to keep...
Health & Fitness > Fitness & Exercise Tips Easy exercises to do at home: 7 of 22

People are always looking for good workouts that are simple, relatively easy to do and require little to no equipment; in other words something they can do at home in their free time. They spend all sorts of time on the internet looking for such workouts and they forget about some of the most basic workouts that anyone can d...
Health & Fitness > Substance Abuse & Addiction (Other) Do you smoke or have you ever smoked marijuana?: 11 of 33

Personally I have never done any drugs, including marijuana. People like to argue that weed is not a drug, using the "drugs are man made" argument, but to me a drug is any substance that alters your state of mind, be it man made or found in nature. I grew up in a rural area where there was very little to occupy a person's ti...
Health & Fitness > Health Risks Mono treatment: 1 of 3

Mononucleosis, commonly known as mono is a horrible little virus that generally afflicts teens and young adults. Children can get it, but the symptoms are often mild to nonexistent and adults have in all likelihood already built up immunities. Mono is characterized by an intense feeling of weakness and a lack of will to do p...
Health & Fitness > Alternative Exercise Summertime workouts for adults: 1 of 3

Summer is the season in which most people vow to get or stay in shape. Everyone wants to develop a beach body. So most people resolve to join a gym or go running every night. Running and working in a gym is all well and good but often after getting a gym membership attendance is scarce. But with the proper dedication one can...
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Trends & Genres Are video games getting better or worse as graphics, sound and gameplay complexity improve?: 6 of 16

Every year there is a huge leap in the technology that powers the video games that are released. Graphics are more lifelike, sounds are more vivid and the controls are more fluid. You'd think that there would be no question as to whether the games are improving. Yet to me it seems that, while the gameplay is improving, the a...