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Recently, China found that the head of its State Food and Drug Administration had been taking bribes, and approved a number of medications that were basically fraudulent. In an unusually harsh sentence even for China, they just executed him.

China may have trouble figuring out who's to blame on these things. They may have trouble enforcing a lot of these guidelines. But you can't say that they go easy on the ones they do blame...

Book Review - The Courtyard

I've recently perused Alan Moore's "The Courtyard," a graphic novel (aka "high-budget comic book"). It's slightly misnamed in that it's another fellow's adaptation of a short story by Alan Moore. In any case, it's quite good.

( A review )