Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* so apparently Tony Blair thinks that Yale did the right thing in that their university press is declining to reprint the Danish Muhammad cartoons or any other depiction of Muhammad, with the initial half-hearted criticism but now full endorsement of the book's author. What's interesting is that Blair brings up an argument I hadn't heard before: that this is okay because it's not original scholarship. I get the argument, and Blair is clever enough and articulate enough to still argue 2003's justifications for the Iraq invasion on talk-show TV without people yelling out "You Lie," but I can't endorse this distinction.

* I don't believe the notion being floated, but I sure appreciate this sterling example from the Strong Headline-Writing School.

* another politician, another where-I-stood-on-those-cartoons stance of note.

* finally, no one should be prosecuted for a cartoon.
 
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