Suffer the child workers

BULLETIN FROM WASHINGTON DC

- JONATHAN KRONSTADT

I am a lifelong reader of newspapers. We still I get the printed edition of the Washington Post, mostly because, at my age, if I don't go out and get the newspaper after starting the coffee how the hell am I supposed to know my day has begun?

These days, however, one must approach the Post with eyes narrowed to a slit lest you see the front page in its entirety, and the comprehensive awfulness of it sends you racing back to bed. Even a careless glance at a rarely visited section can ruin your day. Like this morning, when in the process of delicately removing the sports section - still the safest spot in the paper, though horrors have lurked in its pages all too regularly of late - the business section fell out, and before I could put it in the recycling where it belongs, I spied this headline: "The conservative campaign to rewrite child labour laws".