Thufferin' thuccotash!

Beware of loaded cartoons. They will always go off by the last act... yes, yes, in a perfect world, we could all just do what we feel like, as Bart Simpson maintains. Spit off the overpass, give everyone a lot of sass. Indulge our inner brats. However, despite the marvelous ideal of universal free speech, for everyone from singin' Neo Nazi-ettes to ragin' vegans, there are simply times when one should NOT throw accelerants on an open blaze, i.e., mock Islam's deity. But oh, some of those crazy Danes, namely a rightwing newspaper over there, did just that. Well, perhaps those silly rightwingers will be learning a life (and possibly death) lesson. Not being a fundamentalist religious nut myself, I don't much care if people draw deities in offensive headgear, nor do I respect very many of the world's so-called faith groups, but this was truly stupid, publishing anti- Islamic cartoons in these dark days. The fanatical ones have no sense of humor, even if something is truly funny. Just wait and see what happens with political cartoonists here in the US. They're already being warned by the powers that be, cartoonists like the Toles guy who had an anti-military 'toon in the Washington Post. The kind of sense of humor Bush&Co have is similar to Stalin's; Mr. Stalin loved a good practical joke, as well as abuse and mockery of his terrified underlings.
Goerge W. Bush got a kick out of mocking at least one of the people he had executed while he was governor of Texas, and you've seen and heard his attempts at either completely tasteless or lame joking around. He blew up frogs as a kid; we've got a sociopath in charge. Better caricature him whilst we may...