R.I.P. Spotted post-rave

It’s the end of an era: Four Loko will no longer be shipped to New York State. We’ll never 4get you, “blackout in a can.” Reminisce, dear readers, and stay tuned for a Four Loko themed poll. How will the restless masses react without their Jolly Rancher flavored Satan sweat? Hoard? Deal? (NYTimes)

We’ve got our own Cash Money Millionaire. Turns out PrezBo’s rollin’ in dough: the Ivy League’s highest paid president brought home a cool $1.75 mil in 2008 (Bloomberg).

NYPost thinks we’re spending too much time “banging into one another” with our “noses pasted in our smart phones.” Sexpert Andrea Peyser compares walking around Columbia to “a Microsoft commercial,” “a blank-faced village of the damned,” and “a screaming void.” Basically, we’re all fucked—and not in the right way. (NYPost) Update: Also, MyFoxNY dragged a camera crew here to cover the “experiment.” They leave wondering how we even get dates. Well, you see

CityRoom live-blogs Charlie Rangel’s Ethics hearing. Forty minutes in, he walked out, complaining he couldn’t afford his lawyer. The embattled congressman faces 13 separate ethics charges. By the way, he was just reelected with an overwhelming majority. (CityRoom)