A Quartet Of Charlie Hebdo-Related Follow-Ups

* Alan Kurdi's father reacts to the Riss cartoon that uses a depiction of his dead son as a groper in another timeline to make its point. It's pretty amazing we have such cartoons and an apparatus to capture a family member's reaction.

* Jordan's Queen Rania was also not a fan.

* in the middle of this super-general update on major news developments regarding the Hebdo anniversary, there's a story that interests me about a widow of one of the police officers asking for an investigation of protective measures around the magazine. I don't think enough attention has been paid the Hebdo killings as a crime, so quickly it was adopted by people across a wide range of political ideas as an event meaningful to them. Here's a way more Dan Brown-sounding version of that same idea that Ben Katchor linked to from his Facebook page.

* this isn't Hebdo at all, but it's still sort of interesting. Legal precedent that a vehicle for a viewpoint can be punished would seem to have dire consequences for something like a satirical magazine, and untenable generally.
 
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