Black and Happier. Slightly.

Black happiness is on the rise.  Or so it seems.  Is it because of Barack Obama?  Or is something else at play in the land of societal equality and community equilibrium?  Last week, The New York Times tried to quantify the new “Black Satiety” in the following graphic:

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The End of Blogging

We all knew this day would come:  The everyday Blogger is dead; and we are the haunted, but rectifying, ghosts of what used to be and what has never been.  Our deaths begin and end with the elevation of Twitter where everyone suddenly became a publisher — but never a writer — and great thoughts and complex ideas were forever compounded down into 140 character streams of neverending drivel.

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