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The Salt Mine: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014. 20 years - and counting - in SPJ. I opened up my mail the other evening to see that SPJ had sent me my 20-year pin. Has it really been that long? Anyhow, if you're a journalist, you should know that the Society of Professional Journalists is America's oldest and largest organization for journalists. Our leaders work to advocate for the First Amendment and to promote higher professional standards in our industry. You can join online at this link. So, what are you waiting for?
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The Salt Mine: No more Cambodias
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Monday, February 14, 2011. Seeing countries go through periods of revolution - like what has happened in Egypt and Tunisia recently - always brings both excitement and anxiety. The new governments there, whatever they turn out to be, could bring positive change for those societies, but there's also the risk that things could get much, much worse than they had already been. Several months ago I read the awesome book Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare. Hard to believe it was real life. Is such a hopeful song,...
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The Salt Mine: September 2014
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014. The little-known link between guitar god Steve Cropper and actor Leonardo DiCaprio . Here's Cropper (play it, Steve! And here's Leo, with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (from Leo's Instagram feed):. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Oakton, VA, United States. A journalist in Washington, D.C., originally from Warrenton, Ga. Spent about 15 or so years in Nashville and three in Houston. View my complete profile. Dallas, Home Sweet Home.
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The Salt Mine: Transparency Camp '09 is awesome
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Sunday, March 1, 2009. Transparency Camp '09 is awesome. I'm in Washington, D.C, for Transparency Camp. An "uncamp" being led by the Sunlight Foundation at the Center for Politics, Democracy and the Internet on the campus of George Washington University. (And the subject is government transparency - no, friends on Facebook, I am not learning how to make myself invisible. But thanks for the laugh.). Read more by searching Twitter for hashtag #tcamp09. I'm tweeting as Texas Watchdog. Follow me on Twitter.
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The Salt Mine: Dinner is underway
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Friday, May 16, 2008. I'm honored to have sitting at my table Mr. Andy Brown, who sat with me last year - this is his 11th banquet - and Mr. Foster Shockley, who is at his 24th or 25th banquet. Think I sat with Andy one year. could you post a photo, so i can make sure? Great guy. so sorry to be missing this year. May 16, 2008 at 8:35 PM. Let me look in my pictures and see if I got one of him that came out. I wound up taking a lot of incredibly blurry pictures. May 17, 2008 at 7:23 AM. Follow me on Twitter.
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The Salt Mine: The Peebles family of Emanuel County, Ga.
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Sunday, July 31, 2011. The Peebles family of Emanuel County, Ga. I'm a newbie at this Flash stuff, y'all, so my apologies if this isn't the best-looking thing you ever saw. Plus, this isn't the best-looking group of folks in the world, either. But they're my family, and you don't get to pick your family, now, do you? If the text is hard to read, you can see this a bit bigger, too, by clicking on this link. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Oakton, VA, United States.
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The Salt Mine: Separated at birth? DiCaprio and Cropper
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014. The little-known link between guitar god Steve Cropper and actor Leonardo DiCaprio . Here's Cropper (play it, Steve! And here's Leo, with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (from Leo's Instagram feed):. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Oakton, VA, United States. A journalist in Washington, D.C., originally from Warrenton, Ga. Spent about 15 or so years in Nashville and three in Houston. View my complete profile. Dallas, Home Sweet Home.
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The Salt Mine: Happy Fourth of July!
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012. Happy Fourth of July! For Independence Day, my first while living in (or near) the nation's capital, here's a Wordle of the Declaration of Independence, created by Wordle user Sofie Inkpen. Also, check out the annual r eprint of the Declaration in today's. Published this year in a higher-res format along with a transcription, 'cause some of that flowing script is hard to read). I'm not even sure I knew it had lyrics. But I heard it performed on A Prairie Home Companion. Todd Pack...
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The Salt Mine: Podcast: My idea that might make you rich -- and Twitter clients, too
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Sunday, August 2, 2009. Podcast: My idea that might make you rich - and Twitter clients, too. The JP Podcast kicks off with discussion of an idea that I'm giving away that could make someone very wealthy. Click here to listen in. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Oakton, VA, United States. A journalist in Washington, D.C., originally from Warrenton, Ga. Spent about 15 or so years in Nashville and three in Houston. View my complete profile. Dallas, Home Sweet Home.
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The Salt Mine: Some great albums
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Monday, March 9, 2009. Some favorite all-time albums of mine - because I need to test the "bullets" function on my blog for something we're doing at work. (Criteria: No greatest-hits compilations allowed.) And keep in mind, this is not a complete list. Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen. Otis Redding Live in Europe, Otis Redding. Dancing in the Parlor, Stephen Wade. Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette. Traveling Without Moving, Jamiroquai. The Band, The Band (the "brown" album). Follow me on Twitter.
