On some cartoons that ran in a Danish newspaper...

In case you haven't noticed, here's the photo recap. There are plenty of voices weighing in on the cartoon chaos, but I found this particular tidbit from New YorkMagazine's Kurt Andersen interesting indeed:

"Consider three U.S. news stories that broke coincidentally with the cartoon madness. A Bush-appointed PR handler at NASA had insisted that government scientists refer to the Big Bang as a theory. In an exurb of Denver, a public-school music teacher was forced to write a letter of apology for showing a video about opera, because it featured Joan Sutherland talking to puppets about Faust and Mephistopheles—i.e., it was pro-Satan. And after it was discovered that the producers of an evangelical movie had cast a gay actor, the president of a Baptist seminary said, 'It would probably be an overreaction to firebomb these men’s houses.' Perhaps she said 'probably' ironically, like the Iranians are smirking about their Holocaust-cartoon contest."