The onset of middle age used to mean that one could ease into becoming a bland old fusspot, free from the burden of remaining attuned to the microscopic upticks of the cultural barometer. You’d have bought a reliable European sedan, started making bad jokes to waitresses and receiving all your news from Time. Blissful irrelevance Read More
The Richmond Times-Dispatch has switched to larger, more spaced-out fonts today, presumably catering to older readers, points out Poynter.
“We switched to a new typeface, Utopia, that has larger character forms than our old type. In addition, we have increased the size of the type and the amount of space between lines of Read More
Joel Kotkin of the nonprofit think tank the New America Foundation notes in a Thursday Wall Street Journal op-ed the remarkably dull effect the baby boomers seem to be having on the national housing market. The proclivity of boomers to buy and stay in single-family houses was one reason for the unexpected housing boom Read More
