Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* received a concerned note from the publisher of Kurt Westergaard's book via Matthias Wivel that I was wrong in passing along information published that the bomb-in-turban cartoon created by Westergaard would be used as art in the making the cover of his forthcoming autobiography. That is not the case, and I should have known better as 1) half of the stories about Danish cartoons-related things are just soaked with lies, 2) it was completely insane to think that art would be used. I apologize. To the right is the actual biography cover, which looks nice. As I mentioned before, I haven't been real big on the books coming out of the original controversy, and I hold high hopes that there will be a lot of interest to read in this one. I think Westergaard has conducted himself honorably, although I know other people disagree with me.

* apparently, there's another story going around that the book will also contain 35 Muhammed-related cartoons, which is also not the case.

* because of the degree of disinformation out there -- like smog in LA -- I suppose we have to take this with a grain of salt, but a story in The Ottawa Citizen likely plucked from the somewhere indicates that the Danish Cartoons newspaper Jyllands Posten has erected a physical barrier around its building in order to better protect itself from terrorist reprisal.
 
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