Rearview Roadkill: Intellectual Roadkill

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  Thanks, Things, and the end of Gratitude

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was a day spent wallowing in traditional southern fare and being chauffeured by my parents from one end of the county to the other. We spent the early afternoon at my paternal grandparents’ home where Ma-Maw’s chocolate rolls were the tour de force. Early evening we arrived at my at my mother’s [...]

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  Why adultery still matters

  If you’re a fan of watching heroes topple, this weekend became your Super Bowl of sorts. In a 72-hour period three high profile men of industry and the military saw their private lives and their careers served up like the dollar menu at McDonalds. David Petreaus, now former CIA director and retired military golden child, [...]

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  Would you let you date your son?

  Earlier this year I wrote article entitled, Would you let you date your daughter? It turned out to be one of those proverbially stakes in the ground for any father of girls.  The title of the piece put forward a simple but powerful concept, would my actions and behaviors as a man, husband, and father [...]

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  Gods of Clay, creating idols in our own image

  In this, the most debilitating economic crisis since the Great Depression, there is one occupation that remains as robust and profitable as ever – the Hero.  At no time since Pagan Rome and Julius Caesar has there been a more profound worship of the fallible human. There is no place we can turn, no sport, [...]

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  The exhaustion of insecurity

  I’ll never forget the day I first encountered that adversary – insecurity. The year was 1979 and I had just entered the fourth grade at Charlotte Elementary. The ‘Tigers’, as we were called, was the typical small town grammar school. There were six grades, only slightly more teachers on staff, and I had the same [...]

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  Longing for options amid our obligations

  One of the most depressing times of my life was the months immediately following my graduation from college. From May until the New Year, I stayed mired in a nostalgic funk. The excitement I felt at bidding good riddance to exams, projects, and Strategic Management 450 was quickly transcended by another far more distressing reality. [...]

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  Fifty Shades of Wishful Thinking

  This phenomenon with Fifty Shakes of Grey baffles me. Critics claim the writing is insipid likened more to the musings of a teenage schoolgirl than an author whose pen has garnered international fame. Yet the books’ success is undeniable and has sent publishers of the genre historically reserved for middle-aged single women with too many cats [...]

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