'Toon Trouble
Today sees cartoonist Mark Fiore bring his take on the cartoon controversy itself. Follow the link above. The subject has taken on epidemic proportions on the blogs, not to mention in the real world. Richard Neville's piece mentioned yesterday is now updated and fully illustrated at his blog here while an article at Slate asks Whose God can you draw anyway?
The riots have not gone unobserved in the imperial court. Bush reckons they are "bad" but doesn't comment on the toons themselves. Henchwoman Condi is blaming it all on Syria and Iran - great fodder for the department of war-mongering. The New York Times dives in further and suggests that the whole affair began last December when Arab leaders met in Mecca.
The French rub it all in by reprinting the offending items once again and commissioning a new one to boot! Israel's contribution to the tension is to tear down a Muslim cemetery so it can build a so-called "Museum of Tolerance". Come again?
Real humour meets the real world as Alternet publish an interview with comedian and left-winger Al Franken. Probably safe enough - it's not illustrated! Something that is illustrated, here, is the Guantanamo Chair (my name).
In the UK, a nuclear plant has "lost" some of its enriched uranium (government blame the paperwork!) and Blair may cancel next year's elections while he "reforms" the process. Wish that both of these items were actually cartoons.
Later.
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