Seeing Lyle Kessler's "Orphans" with the girl.

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Visiting the KLBE Air Museum

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Over the years I have leveled up my Blender3D skills.

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Fox apologizes for “error” in news story that created the impression Eagles players knelt during the national anthem.

Context matters. Good journalists should go out of their way to avoid creating a mistaken impression. Fox News apologized Tuesday after receiving a torrent of criticism over the network’s use of photos of various players for the Philadelphia Eagles kneeling in prayer, creating the misleading impression that they were demonstrating during the national anthem. The…

Downtime with the boy.

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Screening of "Indentured" (short film the girl and I filmed in January)

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“for every cliché of a barista or bartender with a liberal arts degree, there were ten with a degree in business.”

This story offers evidence to challenge the stereotype that under employed humanities majors are stuck working in service jobs years after graduation. STEM jobs are indeed the most marketable, but a recent study found  that after five years, business, health professions, education and psychology make up far more of the underemployed graduates than English or…

What’s Wrong With Being From the South? Just Ask an Academic in the North

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That gut-wrenching photo of immigrant children in a cage? First published in 2014.

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My parents holding a picture of the family I took with my first SLR camera in 1987.

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My parents doing their daily crossword puzzle.

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An interesting analysis of Trump’s rhetorical strategy.

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Weaponizing Empathy: You reacted to the outrageous claim that I crafted specifically to outrage you. But I was just kidding. Now you know how I feel when you do rhetoric on me. (Or something.)

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Drawing of Once on This Island by the amazing Rebecca Scassellati.

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