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Name-calling and ad hominem attacks don’t provide anyone with reasons to change their mind.

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Not doing well. As usual.

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Don’t call it “social distancing” or you just might get a polite correction from the administration. These are *physical* distancing markers on the quad.

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What are ‘Judeo-Christian values’? Analyzing a divisive term

block of American society. ­But for critics of how the term is used today, Judeo-Christian is vague, historically flawed and even inflammatory. These opposing views reflect a deep rift in American society and illuminate very different fundamental political beliefs.

“This is a term defined by exclusion,” said Shalom Goldman, a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, arguing that the term is often used to reject secular values and Muslims.

“It’s essentially saying our values are not the values of the Enlightenment or the Constitution, but instead our values are the values of the Bible,” he said.

Rabbi Jack Moline, president of the Washington-based Interfaith Alliance, called the term a “generalization” and said it is one “Christians in particular use to put a patina of universality on a certain Christian culture in the United States.”

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Multimodal Composition: Every time a student submits a narrated PowerPoint, a puppy cries.

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Apparently I’m using boolean modifiers to carve out negative-space greebles for a texture atlas. Or something. #blender3D

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Sentence Definition: Species = Genus + Differentia

Sentence Definition: Species = Genus + Differentia

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My big acting moment in this scene is declining a drink. #indie #film

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