David Von Drehle: Mad magazine is dying. Maybe we should worry.

The demise of Mad magazine is hardly a surprise. Times are tricky for print publications in general — all the more so for a title targeted with exquisite precision at middle-school boys. They are Nature’s neglected travelers, parked on an apron while the girls they used to know go racing down the evolutionary runway and take flight into the wild blue of adulthood.Because life has, for the moment, scorned them, they return the favor, and for a couple of generations, Mad was both a tut