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Leadership

Everyone Needs a Coach

It’s a balmy night in Texas, one of those nights that’s so hot the falling rain evaporates on your clothes. Bugs congregate around any light they can find. A football team, embittered and disgraced, stands on a neglected field in front of a bonfire. Their coach, just one disastrous game in to his fourth job in three … Continue reading »

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When Did It Become Such a Bad Thing to be an American?

You’ve probably heard that Superman recently renounced his United States citizenship. I don’t really read comics anymore, never did much beyond a phase in junior high, so I can’t say what actually led up to this in the storyline. I just know this panel has made its rounds through the interwebs and on TV:

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Truth or Truths?

Truth exists. Truth is real. Truth is absolute. And for all those who would argue the whole Schrodinger’s cat theorem as a basis for the co-existence of infinite alternate timelines, and therefore multiple truths (yes, I’ve actually heard this argued quite seriously before),  let me remind you that the vast majority of us humans live … Continue reading »

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To Whom Much Is Given…

For much of my life, I’ve been accused of having a problem with authority. The only thing I can really say in defense of this is that most leaders aren’t really leaders, and aside from contractual obligations or matters of law, we as humans with free-will don’t have any obligation to support manipulative petty tyrants. … Continue reading »

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