New phone, new photos
Midnight: “wtf.”
White supremacy, doing journalism, and the explanatory comma
This particular Code Switch episode on the explanatory comma is itself a kind of extended explanatory…
Happy Halloween
Halloween in Vicwest is quiet but nice. Some great costumes on the street last night and…
Journalism is the business of influence
Good journalists do what they do because they care. They have interests. The organizations that employ…
Martin Speckter, type design, and the interrobang
99% Invisible did an episode on the interrobang recently. I was interested to learn that early…
Reality testing, Dylan Marron and Every Single Word
If you ask white folks about the over-representation of white folks on screen, they will often…
Fresh approaches to skepticism
The skeptic social movement has been a big part of my social and intellectual world. In…
Vicwest caterpillar, a springtime phenomenon
Some years we have more. Some years we have less.
Journalism is a variety of public relations
Journalists complain about the rise and impact of public relations. It’s the “dark side”. Public relations…