Ms. mochi-tsuki discovers that the Washington Post has no copyeditors and cannot do math.
If this were another blog, I would be typing "Why, oh why, can't we have a better press corps" here. Instead, let's just leave it at: if you can't extract data from the census correctly, what are you doing publishing a newspaper read by government officials?
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