Letters: Dern on Ethics, X-Men and Australian Bookstores, Dan Grobstein File

Several notes from Daniel Dern this week:

• Questions For The Questioner
  Did Deborah Solomon of The New York Times break the paper.s strict code of ethics? In interviews with Ira Glass and Amy Dickinson, MATT ELZWEIG finds a troubling pattern.
• New dialog for old X-Men comics (warning: socialism!)
• Australian bookstore attempts to extort small publishers

Dan Grobstein File

• Stupid right-wing bloggers on s-CHIP. More on s-CHIP. The family that gave the Democrats response can't get insurance [Ed note: I know this is true; I have two pre-existing conditions. I am uninsurable, except as a member of a group. Same for my younger daughter. That is uninsurable--at ANY price]

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  I'll say this for the White House and its spinoffs. When they need REAL attorneys, they'll never hire one with a Regent University sheepskin on their walls.

• DINING & WINE
| October 10, 2007
Picky Eaters? They Get It From You
By KIM SEVERSON
A new study offers some relief to parents of picky eaters: It’s not your cooking, it’s your genes.

[Ed: Another example of America's stupid shortsigtedness]

• BUSINESS / WORLD BUSINESS
| October 3, 2007
Unlike U.S., Japanese Push Fiber Over Profit
By KEN BELSON
Japan is a broadband paradise with the world’s fastest and cheapest Internet connections, but some analysts wonder if the country’s push to install fiber is worth the effort.

[Ed. note: it is great having Krugman available again…]

• OPINION
| October 8, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist: Same Old Party
By PAUL KRUGMAN
President Bush hasn’t strayed from the path of conservatism. On the contrary, he’s the very model of a modern movement conservative.

• New Frontiers In Torture

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  Oh my God. The Bush administration sent these guys to fight for 729 days instead of 730 days, because had they been sent for 730 days they'd have gotten education benefits.
  
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