Well now HERE's something wacky: even though white folks in America are losing the baby-having contest, our numbers just keep rising on the latest census. Why? Because we run that shit. But also: everyone wants to be white!

A funny thing about New Orleans is nobody has any idea how many people live there since that hurricane destroyed everything. You might say the census is the biggest thing to hit New Orleans since Katrina! Don't say that. [NYT]

Census Bureau director Robert Groves publicly apologized Friday for including the word "Negro" in the census this year. He apologized to a caller on C-Span, a.k.a. "Black-Span." Not "Negro-Span!" Take note, white folks. [USNWR]