Author: missingperspective
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Appreciate Failure or Else… You Fail? (The Monday Fits)
Millennials and Baby Boomers may have something in common… not if the Generation Xers have anything to say about it…
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What’s With the Middle Class? (The Monday Fits)
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein It’s time to be a little direct. There is something wrong with the middle class. Politicians, theorists, and writers tell us time and time again, that the middle class is the social class that matters […]
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We Root for the UnderDog, But Do We Really? (The Monday Fits)
“In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.” Theodor Adorno I have been wrestling with the idea of the underdog since March Madness started, why? I am not so sure. The concept that we are rooting for the underdogs just never seemed genuine […]
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To Err is Human… And We Can’t Get Enough of it
“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.” – Martin Luther This is not another blog post about politics, I promise, but I am kicking off with Hillary. Yes, Hillary Clinton, you tired of her too? Me, three times a million, but it’s not her fault. As […]
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How Ignorant is Your Bliss (The Monday Fits)
“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.” William Shakespeare It’s been a while since I’ve been actually upset for a Monday Fit, but I am today and I have been fuming for quite a bit. I posted only a quote from Ms. Virginia Woolf last week, because I hadn’t quite formed my thoughts into […]
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I Couldn’t Help Myself This Time
“All these relationships between women, I thought, rapidly recalling the splendid gallery of fictitious women, are too simple….And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends…They are now and then mothers and daughters. But almost without exception they are shown in their relation to […]
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When It’s Over, Is It Over? (The Monday Fits)
The ultimate test of a man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. – Gaylord Nelson- The life of a hero, idol, or even a dreamer are often legendary. The further from the bottom they climb, the better the story there is […]
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Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls… Well, Maybe Just a Little Bit (The Monday Fits)
What is a waterfall? It is a beautiful flow of water over a cliff, and generally, waterfalls are located in the most beautiful parts of the world. But anyone familiar with popular culture may also think of waterfalls as referred by the 1995 single by the R&B trio, TLC. “Don’t go chasing waterfalls, please stick […]
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Sweet Home Alabama: The Litmus Test of America
“If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey, he’s obligated to do so” – Thomas Jefferson Since the story broke about the same-sex marriage fiasco in Alabama, my mind has been kind of in a frenzy. The story infuriates me on so many levels that I see red. I mean […]
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“You say Nature, I Say Nurture” (The Monday Fits)
“Genes load the gun, environment pulls the trigger” – Dr. Scott Kahan The debate about nature versus nurture has always been intriguing to me. Are we a product of our environment, or do the genes of our parents and grandparents dictate our behaviors and decisions that we choose to make? There was a time when […]
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