We are all Danes now

Well this has been a pretty good week for righteous indignation, particularly for passions inflamed in ignorance.

Many Americans are positively patriotic all of a sudden about the right of a Danish paper to print cartoons which the bulk of them haven't seen, whereas they cheered when Cindy Sheehan was tossed from the State of the Union address for wearing a t-shirt with a message on it.

Go figure.

At least I shall do my part to insure the indignation doesn't continue to be ignorant indignation by providing this link to the offending cartoons (viva la internet):

Muhammad Cartoons


Here is an editorial by Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe that takes American papers to task for failing to defend freedom of speech in the wake of the Muslim indignation. It has been a long time since I have seen freedom of speech in particular, or the Constitution in general, vigorously defended in print.

Somebody pinch me.


We are all Danes now

I suppose this should be taken as a direct challenge to editors of the Boston Globe to reprint the Danish cartoons or risk looking like fools.

Speaking of which, four New York editors resigned because their publisher refused to reprint the offending cartoons for fear of offending the offended:

Quitting before cowering

In other righteous indignation news...

Conservatives are once again complaining about the way a funeral for an ally of the poor failed to generate favorable press for themselves. The insolence! The impudence! The horrible display of manners!

Boo hoo.

Of course most of this righteous indignation is also inflamed in ignorance since many have not seen the footage of Coretta Scott King's funeral. That too is easily remedied. Here is a link:

Compassionate Conservative has no clothes

What a week!

Maybe now the Iranian president ought to say something really stupid and Paul O'Reilly can say something inflammatory in response.

How the hell did human beings manage to keep from killing each other this long?