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So on Tuesday (follow my train of thought here, as we’ll eventually make our point)… With minimal sleep and a totally swamped, exhausting day before, I awoke with two of my two and half bathrooms unusable. With my spouse out of town and carpet layers home instead for a
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As one who intends to always be an active student — recognizing there will forever be more to learn — I find myself consistently amazed at the truth embedded in stories of faith. I also find that for me, when I’m immediately rejecting of faith, sometimes that’s more about me
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I’d like to think I’m a reasonable, teachable person. I’d like to think when the truth presents itself, I could immediately accept it as true. I’d like to think that I never craft truth from a limited perspective, holding on so fiercely, that I fail to
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Oh, how I love this time of year… We have Jayhawks and Cardinals and Catamounts and Ducks. (With all due respect…) What exactly is a “catamount”? (… a medium-sized wildcat, like a cougar, I’m told…) Besides the birds listed above, we have heroic Cowboys and Spartans and all sorts
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For 18 years, the host began by asking the primarily female audience, “Would you like to be queen for a day?” And for the next 30/45 minutes, “Queen for a Day” ran on radio, then NBC Television, and on ABC Television, beginning in 1945. Host Jack Bailey would engage
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It is no secret that the Intramuralist loves the question mark. It’s the only punctuation piece that invites an answer (… and we wonder why we keep conversationally shutting down one another…). With a search spanning the pages of Facebook, Forbes, Readers’ Digest, and my own, etc. — recognizing that some
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As reported by The Hill: “On Friday, Charles Murray, author of ‘Coming Apart’ and ‘The Bell Curve,’ was driven out of the McCullough Student Center at Middlebury College by a mob of angry students. He gave his talk via live stream from an ‘undisclosed location’ on campus. The live stream
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I’m thinking I won’t be venturing out on too much of a rhetorical limb here when I suggest current political discussions have become fairly difficult — at least difficult in navigating through via an interactive, respectful, honoring-of-all kind of way. I witness such weekly within a few
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[This is a tough day for the Intramuralist. But this post originally published in January of 2016 makes me feel a little better, as it’s one of my all time favorites. I apologize for the repeat; however, some stories are worth sharing far more than once…] A little less
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For the last several years, the Intramuralist has published our annual "State of the Government” analysis in conjunction with the president's annual State of the Union Address. Technically, tonight is not a State of the Union Address. Pres. Trump is not bucking tradition; SOTU speeches are typically
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In the polarized, political hot bed many seem to be lying in, the following story got the attention of many this weekend. As reported by Reuters: “The White House excluded several major U.S. news organizations, including some it has openly criticized, from an off-camera briefing held by the