Perhaps to start feeling better about myself, given newspapers' fortunes these days, I need to start gloating over others' misfortunes, such as soda makers':
After generations of increasing sales, the amount of soda sold in the United States dropped slightly last year.
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Some of the best-known brands were the hardest hit. Coke Classic sales dropped 2 percent and Pepsi was down 3.2 percent.
Nah. That's the back door of the politics of envy, and I'd have to become a liberal.
