I never get polled. I never win the lottery. and yet, last week I got lucky, in a sense. I was one of the small percentage of Americans to receive at home, by courier, the U.S. Census Bureau's notorious long form, a 38-page detailed questionnaire that quizzes recipients about everything from their commuting habits to their mortgage payments to their mental health.
Like an inquiry from the independent counsel or a Barbara Walters interview, the form includes questions that the average person wouldn't ask his best friend, let alone a stranger. Since the forms began going out last winter, hundreds of...
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