My brother set my parents up for a Mother’s Day video call.

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If, like pollster Matthew McDermott, you shared (or at least chuckled at) that Jimmy Kimmel clip of VP Pence joking about delivering empty boxes because it confirms what you already believe about Pence; or, if you feel the C-SPAN clip that unfairly makes the VP look bad confirms your attitude about the lying America-hating media,…

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Seton Hill graduates its last “New Media Journalism” major this year.

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In April 2000, I was blogging about HTML frames, the future of reading, grammar, Kairos, and Hypercard

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