The top ranking of USA Today doesn’t surprise me. Next to the NY Times, it’s my personal favorite daily. I remember when it premiered in Noo Yawk, when I suspected it would only be a matter of time until the free-standing blue machines would become vandalized to the point of uselessness, or run over, or stolen.

While still a salesman on the road, with the occasional hotel as customers, I learned that one could nonchalantly walk into any hotel lobby, walk up to the area where the paper was free to the guests staying there, and glom a copy. Whether or not this reflects in its’ current paid circulation figures is unknown, but it kinda reminds me of my more than 12 years driving a Honda Accord. At the time, the Ford Taurus and Toyota Camry would alternately advertise themselves as America’s best-selling cars, due in large part to the fact that they both had huge national lease programs, which Honda at the time did not.