Count on the guys at Covered in Oil for the quality similes, such as when describing Pavel Datsyuk:

"Datsyuk scores like Mark Messier at Barry T's circa 1985."

Not the article I was looking for, but a good one nonetheless.

Cartoon Anger a Misrepresentation

So, Global's got a new logo. While some people liken it to a "drunken checkmark", I think they may be infringing on this website's mindbogglingly successful logo. They're on notice.

"I'm going to be Stephen Harper's worst enemy," he warned. "We're going to stir the pot and you better believe we are going to make a heck of a lot of noise."

- David Emerson after handily winning his seat in Vancouver-Kingsway on Jan. 23 (from here)

I'm glad to see I still get to be cynical with the new government.

yeah Jesse, Leo, that fuckin' sucks dudes.

There was an excellent editorial article on the BBC's website about the Muhammad cartoon debate, but it seems to have gone missing...

Basically what it was trying to get across is that this is the result of total cultural misunderstandings on both sides. If you look at where most of the outrage is centred, it is mainly in the Arab nations near Israel, where Arab nationalism and Muslim extremism go hand-in-hand. In Turkey, Iran and even Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, there have been far more muted responses.

Meanwhile in the West, journalists (among others) fail to comprehend the importance of Islam in the day-to-day lives of Middle Easterners, however politicized a version it may be. Also, journalistic practices and ideals such as freedom of the press and free speech are still very much in their infancy when they are present at all. All of this taken together makes for a very delicate scenario, which would allow certain groups on both sides to take advantage of this.

I think the writer of that article definitely got it, where it is just another case of both sides being either unwilling and/or unable to understand the other. Ultimately, I just hope that this remains just that, a misunderstanding, and not the beginning of Samuel Huntington's 'clash of civilizations'.

The issue has certainly been stirred up recently. I’m not sure if it's because of various reprintings, if it just took a bit of time to build, or if it just takes time for the cartoons to filter down to people who would use the situation.

I remember when the cartoons were first making news in the fall… there certainly wasn't the reaction we're getting now.

In any event, the wikipedia link that Par posted is a good synopsis.

And who says you need facts? You just need to be considered acceptable as mainstream comedy. Maybe the Danish cartoons needed to be funny. Example.

rolldeep homies. roll deep

Well, well, perhaps I should hit the refresh button more often.

The Crusade?