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Struggles of an ENTJ Father Confessor

My work­place has been a bit tense of late; the dys­func­tional econ­omy, our own dys­func­tion, our customer’s dys­func­tion – a bit of a mess. Need­less to say, there are many opin­ions of what is wrong and what should be done … Con­tinue read­ing

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Glass Ceiling Myths

Fem­i­nists want you to believe that the glass ceil­ings are there to keep females from advanc­ing. Sup­port­ers of his­tor­i­cally sup­pressed races want you to believe that the glass ceil­ings are there to keep mem­bers of the his­tor­i­cally sup­pressed races from advanc­ing. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Monogamy Concessions

I began this post as a response to a com­ment that Tokra wrote to a post by Still Here Too. My thoughts took me far enough away from the orig­i­nal post that I felt they be bet­ter pre­sented stand alone. There … Con­tinue read­ing

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Why Standardized Testing Is Killing Education

For many years, the com­mon polit­i­cal belief has been that our soci­ety would ben­e­fit by requir­ing pub­lic schools to train stu­dents to pass stan­dard­ized tests. Gen­er­ally this has meant that teach­ers must spend a sig­nif­i­cant, if not a major­ity, of … Con­tinue read­ing

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Personality Miscommunication — Throwing the Switch

My per­son­al­ity is well embed­ded into my neural makeup. Every time I take the MBTI test, I reg­is­ter as an ENTJ. My employer takes full advan­tage of ENTJ-traits (these are from PersonalityPage.com) of my per­son­al­ity, most notably: Gen­uinely inter­ested in … Con­tinue read­ing

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Nobel Prizes Are Not Sports Championships

In the midst of the dis­cus­sion of the loom­ing cri­sis over cuts to UK sci­ence bud­gets, there has been much pride in the fact that the work of three of the recip­i­ents of this year’s Nobel prizes in sci­ence was … Con­tinue read­ing

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Bellowing Elephants; a Lot of Noise, but No Communication

I spend a lot of time in reviews and meet­ings. The other mem­bers of the Exec­u­tive Staff also spend a lot of time in reviews and meet­ings. Some­times we are in meet­ing with each other, some­times we are in meet­ings … Con­tinue read­ing

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Football Season Starts; Let the Name Calling Begin!

For any inter­na­tional read­ers, I am talk­ing about the type of foot­ball played mostly in the US with a ball that has pointed ends by play­ers wear­ing what amounts to nearly full suits of armor. In other words, I do … Con­tinue read­ing

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