Damn right I'm the daddy ;-)
Colour. Colour. Colour. My aesthetic for rich colours is just much greater than my taste for textures and tonal range. I pretty much only ever used b+w film so I could try using a darkroom and now occasionally cheat digital images to duotones to either hide distractinig colours or try to improve a mediocre shot.
Of course it depends on the subject and what you're trying to achieve, but by and large it's colour for me. Mrs Magpie is right on the money, there's way too much use of b+w to force a worthy/arty look.
Interestingly, though, a large number of the wins on the monthly photo comp thread have been b+w. Perhaps they tend to stand out since the vast majority of entries are in colour?