Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* I'd like to welcome Osama Bin Laden to the international fraternity of comics critics, as the wires are crackling this morning with his denunciation of the Muhammed caricatures published by Denmark's Jyllands-Posten in Fall 2005 and a promise of a severe punishment to come. As an overly verbal former rich kid with severe problems concerning authority, Bin Laden should fit right in. I'm told you can see video here.

* they're still protesting the recent republication in Pakistan.

* the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's bomb-in-turban effort has shown up on a poster plastered about the city of Prague.

* here's a must-read summary story on the recent flaring up of the issues, in the New York Times.
 
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