[GSlob]

"[the population was] 19.3 million, a drop of 9,538 from a year earlier... That drop is minuscule - 0.0005 percent - and based on estimates rather than an actual count."
Behold the school of journalism graduate. Would someone please explain it to him [with a 2x4 to unstuck the buttons on his calculator] that 0.0005 is 0.5%. At least they are capable of managing a spell checker, which is wondrous and unbelievable.

[GSlob]

0.5=0.05%. My own button got stuck.