TAIBBI's great expose on Bain's role in KB Toys came 228 days after reported/discussed at DU.

[JDPriestly]

11. A lot of unusual people post on DU -- unusual in different ways.

Some of us are unusually active in our communities, in politics, in education, in medicine, in science, even in religion.

Some are unusually well educated or well traveled or well informed because of our work or the accident of our birth.

We come from very different walks of life, different professions, different parts of the country.

One thing I value on DU is that respect each other. We set protocols that require us to at least try to interact with tact and sensitivity to each other's feelings while posting on DU.

As a result, our discussions are rarely hijacked by personal attacks and pettiness.

None of us is right all the time, but we learn from each other. That is probably the one trait that we share: the desire to learn from each other.

So anyone interested in learning with us, teaching us or maybe even learning from us, is welcome and I hope will enjoy this website.

This may seem a little off topic. But I was responding to this:


Its the kind of thing that happens at DU alot. Not just ahead of the curve, way ahead of the curve. Those who do this for a living would be well advised to comb DUs threads carefully because there is a lot of gold in these forums, sometimes its weeks ahead and sometimes months ahead but the most compelling reason to be a regularly reader of DU is that it is a community that has a tremendous resource of people whose experience and passion result in a regular production of valuable data, opinion and discussion.