He wrote this paragraph, which handles gracefully the issue I see some people have difficulty with (most of whom are commenters on The Denver Post’s articles):

One of the issues is of course terminology, its the National BLACK Theatre Festival. And so one caller asked when we were going to cover the National WHITE Theatre Festival and wouldn’t people be up in arms if such an event existed. But of course, such events exist. They’re just not labeled as such. And we do cover them. The labeling along racial and ethnic lines is part of minority groups—racial, ethnic, religious—banding together to tell the majority that they exist. Majority groups don’t have to label. They’re implied.

UPDATE: Robin (in the comments below) found the source. Plus, you can buy it. Go and buy this awesome photo here, and see more great photos by that photographer (he’s from Tunisia) here.

This is my photo section, these are my favorite photos, this is a tag cloud of the words I’ve used to describe my photos, and these are my recent photos.

I know it’s slightly tacky, but I’m putting ads next to the photos. Joe, Write has been operating in the red the past six quarters, and the stockholders are getting nervous. They’re using big words like “monetizing,” “YOY Growth,” and “Or Else.”

My friends Holiday and Mia were in town for Mia’s 30th birthday, and I got three days on the slopes with them and their crew.

I also stuck some sweet shots with my camera on the slopes — here are a couple of them:

There was a crew of carebears on the mountain that day that I ran into at a few different points.
Blue bear at the top of the slope:

I was with blue bear as he had trouble going down the slope, and shot this photo right as he met up with the bears that had waited behind for him:

I launched the site just in time, too — a Missouri j-school student had the same idea just this morning.

HappyJournalist.com

Update: Hey, woot! The New York Times’ CityRoom blog link-tipped HappyJournalist: Angry Journalist, Happy Journalist.

I’m gonna miss the summer when it goes.

p.s. this is my seasonal update about the stuff I did this summer at work.

Researchers have found that the human brain has a natural affinity for narrative construction. People tend to remember facts more accurately if they encounter them in a story rather than in a list, studies find; and they rate legal arguments as more convincing when built into narrative tales rather than on legal precedent.

One Source of Bad Information

There’s a boy in you about three
Years old who hasn’t learned a thing for thirty
Thousand years. Sometimes it’s a girl.

This child had to make up its mind
How to save you from death. He said things like:
“Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.”

You live with this child, but you don’t know it.
You’re in the office, yes, but live with this boy
At night. He’s uninformed, but he does want

To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy
You survived a lot. He’s got six big ideas.
Five don’t work. Right now he’s repeating them to you.

» Here’s another one of Bly’s: The Resemblance Between Your Life and A Dog

The Order of the Occult Hand has no president, board, or member roll. It’s existed for more than 40 years. I haven’t joined, and odds are against my ever joining. Membership belongs to reporters who can sneak the phrase ‘It was as if an occult hand had …’ into print. This isn’t easy: to make it from the reporter’s draft to the printing press, the occult hand has to make it past the reporter’s editor and the copy editors.

But it happens. The Alamogordo Daily News (which, apparently, is owned by my employer’s corporation) ran an article Wednesday with the phrase.

Get more history on the Order.

p.s. If you’re curious about the time I’m posting this — no, I’m not writing this stuff at work. I write it at night and save publishing for the morning.