CNN Declares Cupcakes are More than a Trend

I like this small superficial article that comes to the defense of cupcakes being referred to as a "trend" or "craze". The CNN Living article argues that they've been with us long enough to have become mainstream- an entire decade (2000 was apparently when the Sex in the City episodes aired that featured the characters eating Magnolia's cupcakes, at least that's what Google tells me).
And lets face it, before Sex in the City, most of us were fans of cupcakes that came from our parents ovens.