* this editorial argues that the only way to enter into serious debate is to stop adding fuel to the fire. Since I didn't really see any serious, sober or profound debate on these issues in the long period between cartoon publication incidents, I'm not certain I believe the argument.
* this article is a reminder of the ugliness of the context in which the cartoons are merely one episode of disputed speech.
* this article asserts that there will be political consequences for those that support free-speech issues like the one in Canada surrounding the re-publication of the Danish cartoons.
* IFEX criticizes a UN resolution that came up partly in response to an urge for the protection of religion from defamation that became a bigger issue with the publication of the Jyllands-Posten cartoons.
* here's a full article on that UN resolution. Okay, this should probably be at the top of this update, but I'm trusting most of you read down this far.
