I was asked a question a little while ago on a social media platform.  The question was:

If you're left-handed, is it better to start on a left-handed or right-handed guitar?

Being left-handed myself, and someone who plays guitar "right-handed", as well as being a guitar instructor, I have developed fairly strong opinions on this.  If you happen to be a left-hander who plays a left-handed guitar, please don't take offense at this because it really only applies to those who are just beginning ...

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In what is sure to become the most aggressive campaign promise to date, Premier Brian Pallister has declared war on Manitoba's ruthless winter weather. In a hastily prepared press conference last Thursday, Pallister stated that by, "declaring a climate emergency, Winnipeg City Council is recognizing the magnitude of the challenge we face in surviving climate change."

The Premier unveiled his plan to fight Winter at City Hall amid the 29° heat that's become all too prevalent this summer. 

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Taylor Goodwin, a trans-guitarist known to his friends as "Shredder" has decided to continue his transition by getting callous transplants on the fingers of his left hand as well as hair extensions at his local salon.  Says Goodwin, "I've always known I was a guitarist.  Even as young as 3 I remember shredding on air guitar to Van Halen's Eruption."  All through high school, Goodwin has been seen by his classmates as "different" and he's also been the victim of much bullying.  Eric Paget, who...
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I love facts, I guess because a fact is something that is solid - something that can be depended upon.  A fact is an anchor that you can always go back to when things don't work out.  Sometimes a fact can tell you why something didn't work out, and sometimes a fact just makes you ask more questions, but regardless, a fact is, well... factual.  
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The Canadian Press · Posted: Apr 26, 2019 12:03 PM ET | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

 

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A new study conducted by an independent research group from Canada has concluded that news articles using mainly capital letters and exclamation points in the headline are generally full of BS.

"We have found a direct correlation between the amount of capital letters and exclamation points in a headline, and the total amount of BS in the news article itself", says chief researcher Kenneth Hiebert.

The team also discovered that the sites on which these articles normally appear are no...

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The Cat on the Road

Here's a story I got from my brother that apparently happened to a guy he worked with. True or not, it definitely makes a good story.
  
Apparently this dude had shown up for work a half hour late one Monday morning, but lucky for him he had an excellent excuse.  It seems he had been driving a little fast on the way to work that morning and hadn't seen the neighbor's cat as it sprinted across the road.  He swerved and hammered on the brakes but still hit the poor animal....

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The Bridge

The old man stood, leaning on his pole in the bow of his small craft, gazing intently across the wide river at the massive structure. Dozens of men were crawling all over it like so many ants on a stick.

He remembered a time when men weren’t so proud - a time when they accepted there were things they didn’t understand, things they could not do. Now it seemed as though there was nothing they wouldn’t attempt. They seemed to believe there was nothing they couldn’t s...

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