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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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Office Magic

How the hell did I end up in a posi­tion like this? There is noth­ing in the cor­po­rate job descrip­tion about sit­ting in my office and lis­ten­ing to a never-ending stream of peo­ple spilling their guts out about the issues … Con­tinue read­ing

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It Was a Compliment, Once My Ego Got Out of the Way

Fol­low­ing my most recent surgery, I was able to return to work much more quickly than I was able to fol­low­ing any of my pre­vi­ous surg­eries. This was true because of the nature of the sur­gi­cal work that was per­formed … Con­tinue read­ing

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Getting the Family Together

Every fam­ily goes through this. We are hav­ing a fam­ily event this week­end. It is in cel­e­bra­tion of a joy­ous life event. One of those times when you try to bring mem­bers of the fam­ily, and in this case also … Con­tinue read­ing

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You Won’t Get Burned At the Stake

Not like you would have been in times past; at least in most parts of the world. Not for under­tak­ing sci­en­tific research that is not approved by the estab­lished pow­ers. Most sci­en­tific research requires spon­sor­ship. In today’s world, only a … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sex, Procreation, Recreation, Bonding

The Advi­sory Com­mit­tee for Repro­duc­tive Health Drugs of the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion voted unan­i­mously recently to rec­om­mend approval of an emer­gency con­tra­cep­tive for use up to five days after sex. Accord­ing to CNN: The pill is intended for women who … Con­tinue read­ing

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An ENTJ-INFP Coupling

A reader of this blog recently emailed us with ques­tions about what it was like liv­ing with a per­son with a strong ENTJ per­son­al­ity type. Seems the part­ner of the reader was so career-committed that the reader was faced with extended … Con­tinue read­ing

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Mice and the Big Cheese

Cur­rently receive my employ­ment through a multi-national, pub­lic cor­po­ra­tion with annual turnover approach­ing 10,000,000,000,000 Greece Drach­mae (I do not mean to pick on the Greeks, espe­cially given their cur­rent finan­cial crises, but I just love say­ing “Drach­mae” and ten tril­lion … Con­tinue read­ing

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