¶ The drop is slight, to be sure, but it’s the first ever (all right, in twenty years): the percentage of American households with television sets declined from 98.9 to 96.7. It’s pathetic to be cheered by such small change, but we can’t help it. Even if the same content can be viewed on computer screens, the interaction is entirely different. ¶ A martyr, not a a suicide: Football star Dave Duerson was right to shoot himself in the heart: his brain, sent by his family at his request to a clinic at Boston University, reveals the onset of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the players association, said in a telephone interview that Duerson’s having C.T.E. “makes it abundantly clear what the cost of football is for the men who played and the families.”

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