Brief Updates To A Trio Of Stand-Alone Stories

* conservative columnists are still using Arizona Star cartoonist Daniel Fitzsimmons aggressive recent history to do what columnists in every corner of the political spectrum do these days: scorn and preen.

* a bunch of newspapers here and abroad are using the occasion of the Hosni Mubarak trial to revisit the notion that political cartoonists once cowed into never drawing Mubarak when he was in power now feel perfectly safe doing so.

* although it's not exactly comics although something with clear implications for comics-makers, it's probably worth noting that more media sources have picked up on the story that police in Renton, Washington are trying to track some guy supposedly making salty Internet video about the department and desire to charge him with cyberstalking. Here's a piece in the Post-Intelligencer; here's video of a press conference with a police official responding to criticism. There's something slightly off about this story, and I can't quite put my finger on it, but until I learn more I ask that anyone looking at it do so with a grain of salt.
 
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