1. I am informed by my local Starbucks that the company has discontinued its year-old Chantico Drinking Chocolate beverage, which it launched last year with great fanfare. This is a sensible decision, as Chantico was perhaps the most sickeningly, deliciously disgusting item ever sold in this country.

2. A copy editor at the Louisville Courier Journal, attempting to do Ray Nagin a favor, literally changed his notorious quotation from last week. Instead of quoting the phrase “chocolate city” used by Nagin, the Louisville paper ran this sentence: “Nagin also promised that New Orleans will be rebuilt and again will be ‘a majority African American city.’ ” The paper’s ombudsman offers an apology: “A copy editor who worked on the first day’s wire story paraphrased Nagin’s remarks because he did not want to give offense to readers. Though the editor’s personal sensibilities are to be admired, this time they did not serve the readers, or the newspaper, or journalism.”

Now, why on earth are the “copy editor’s personal sensibilities” admirable? The copy editor decided that Nagin said a no-no, so the copy editor literally doctored the quote. Doctoring a quote in this way is Firing Offense 101 — or at least that’s what I was taught. I once had to fire a copy editor for doctoring a letter to the editor, which was extremely unpleasant but necessary. Instead, the copy editor at the Louisville paper gets praised for trying to make a liberal Democratic black politician sound better. Wow.