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It’s just a game… Or so we say. Sometimes my sense is we’ve got the games and the non-games all mixed up. We discern some activities as a form of play or sport — and other activities as serious and life altering — when maybe they belong in the
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Today is election day. (For the record, another way to look at such is that there are precisely 371 days until next year’s presidential election. Yes, you did hear me sigh.) So what’s on the ballot across the country? Kentucky and Mississippi are each choosing a new Governor,
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I’ve realized I’m not always very good at something. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not down on myself. I am instead wrestling with the realization that there is something I passionately desire to always do well, and yet, I routinely fail in its application… What’s
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13 years ago, a sign hung on the wall of one prominent, presidential candidate’s headquarters. There were three lines on the sign. The first read, “Change vs. more of the same.” The last said, “Don't forget health care.” It was the middle line which soon became the
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We did a crazy thing last Thursday. After a full day of work and regularly scheduled activities — even including a sweet, high school choral concert right before we headed out — we hopped in our car a little after 9 p.m. and drove the 814 miles to see our oldest,
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As socialism has fascinatingly made its way into more of our national conversation — due to the impression that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders seems an authentic, affable candidate — I thought it would be wise to begin to discuss what socialism actually is. Note that such is not a simple nor easily
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With Joe Biden finally, officially bowing out of the 2016 presidential race that he was never officially in (much to the semi-contained, private glee of the Hillary Clinton campaign), I'm reminded of a fantastic question I read a few weeks ago: why do good men pause? Here
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“I fear we might be close to teetering on total, civility failure. The idiots are getting far too big a voice nowadays,” said Joe Tessitore of ESPN. Tessitore spoke this weekend in regard to the college gridiron. He was speaking of how fans reacted to a student on the University
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Let’s begin with 2 examples (I promise to quickly get to the point)… Example #1: Years ago I was driving across the interstate in a state which was not my own, when I noticed two police cars parked off on the upcoming shoulder. No other traffic was near nor
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One question struck me arguably most during this week’s debate: “Do black lives matter? OR… do all lives matter?” We have had some excellent conversations regarding the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the sensitivity of the issue, and the difficulty of those from varied vantage points seeing any other side. I have
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Tonight in Las Vegas is the first Democratic Party debate for the 2016 Presidential nomination. Just as during the thus far, two Republican presidential debates, the Intramuralist will be watching. We plan to watch each debate, as we care deeply about who becomes President — and what each candidate says and
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In light of my youngest celebrating a birthday over the weekend (which I might add, began notably, unintentionally, incredibly enthusiastically early, at 4:30 Friday morning — due to an extremely high, off-the-charts exuberance level) — there is one, brief aspect I felt necessary to expand upon here. You see,