Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* it looks like at least two dead in a suicide car bombing this morning outside the Danish embassy in Pakistan.

* the World Association of Newspapers (given the state of newspaper publishing, that's a hilarious acronym) held a conference about free speech issues and cartooning on Sunday, which of course meant much discussion of the Danish Muhammed caricatures and related efforts like Charlie Hebdo's satirical issue devoted to the issue. I find the Jordanian editor Jehad Momani the most sympathetic, although I'm generally sympathetic to free speech absolutism.

* the Lower House of the Dutch parliament continues to push for a better explanation as to why cartoonist Gregory Nekschot was arrested and why he was held longer than seemed necessary.

* the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard received the the Sappho Award from the Danish Free Press Society a couple of weeks ago, I somehow managed to totally ignore. It is a press freedom award, and comes with a modest cash prize.
 
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