After more than 70 years, Clark Kent quit this week. He's leaving his longtime gig as a reporter for the Daily Planet to—what else?—become a full-time blogger. Clark Drudge? Perez Kent? They just don't have the same ring to it.

After more than 80 years, Newsweek quit last week. The Time magazine rival couldn't survive its two-year experiment with Tina Brown and the Daily Beast and is going digital-only next year behind a pay wall. And, quite frankly, from what I've seen, it's probably best it's behind some kind of wall.

Even voting now has become less an exercise in punching holes and drawing a curtain closed around you. My wife mailed her ballot in last week, and I'll probably have to deal with a touchscreen and blindly trust it got counted somewhere.

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