Robert Samuelson writes (here) in the WaPo about the planned obsolescence of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, the venerable, “authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States.”
Yeah, yeah, most of the info is available on the web elsewhere, but the Statistical Abstract is usable, reliable and, in most cases, better annotated than, say, Wikipedia (I’m not knockin’ the ‘Pede…it’s handy sometimes). Say it ain’t so, Census Bureau.