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Violence in the wake of the cartoon controversy UPDATE | 30 comments (30 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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I think it is relevant as a cartoon on violence in the wake of the cartoon controversy.

There is one important point in it, and that is that sometimes the proximate cause of a large conflict is something unlikely small. In this case, cartoons. The deep cause might be Huntington's "I told you so" of civilizations. We still don't know how large this conflict will get.

Maximo, as a cartoonist, constantly gets in trouble because of his use of God and nudity even if his style is very abstract (his God is usually just an eye in a triangle, and every August he publishes a series of cartoons with beach nudes illustrating verses from the Song of Solomon).

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Feb 5th, 2006 at 06:09:52 PM EST
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Yeah, sure, right, of course. On one hand, on the other hand. Fair and balanced. A plague o' both your houses. Etc.

Tripe.
by Francois in Paris on Mon Feb 6th, 2006 at 02:13:45 PM EST
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Violence in the wake of the cartoon controversy UPDATE | 30 comments (30 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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