"Orphans" was amazing. Powerul, funny, cruel, humane, empathetic. I was speechless at the ending.

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

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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…

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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.”

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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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