Monday, February 13, 2006

Monday Morning Odds & Ends...

Well, it's happened: I was on the New Hampshire Public Radio program The Exchange, talking for about ten minutes about the Danish Mohammed cartoon controversy, the context of comics history and censorship, and a little on Taboo. There wasn't time to counter many of the points raised earlier in the program by the other guests -- including the spreading misnomer that the notorious Falwell vs. Flynt case that made it to the Supreme Court was over a cartoon (it was a rude but clearly-labelled-as-such satiric ad using photos, not cartoons) -- and a few things I was hoping to touch upon went by the wayside. Did the best I could in the few minutes I had to work with -- you can now check it out yourself at
  • NHPR's The Exchange.


  • For those interested, I'll post my thoughts (and some surprising research results) on the Danish cartoon matter later in the week, as time permits.
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    The AP online story headlines how the victim of Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident is "very stable" -- what I want to know is, how stable is Cheney?

    Of course, we've wanted to know that for a long time...
    So, I was out hunting with my pal Dick Cheney...

    Now I understand Cheney's war policies:

    He was shooting at the other thing!