Thursday morning roundup

Chinese protesters go off the deep end. Meanwhile, Chinese writer Mo Yan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Whoa! Food fight in the reader responses to Carolyn's take on the family food fight. Starting with an interesting not-unique-to-food issue: bait-and-switch in a relationship, or changing one's mind about how 'tolerable' a bad habit is, especially when kids come into the picture. But back to food--what makes the wife a "domineering, sanctimonious bully"--the fact that she's a vegetarian? Or that she doesn't want her kids eating crap? Oh, and if "husband" wants to complain about what she's cooking, let him make his own $%^& dinner.