9 Shevat 5766 * 7 February 2006: Charles Dickens Day

Greetings.

The unbridled, violent protests by Muslims across the planet against a few anti-Muslim cartoons rage on, doing far more damage to the image of Islam than the cartoons could have possibly done. Unsurprisingly, lots of unusual behavior is connected with this whole incident. There is also plenty of pointing out hypocrisy:

• “Interfaith group slams caricatures”
  
• “Drawing a line under hypocrisy”
  
• “When Violence Becomes a First Resort”
  
• “Global protests over cartoons spread”
  
• “Iranian paper runs Holocaust contest” (I.e., Iran has decided to take the moral low ground to a new low.)
  
• “Hypocrisy In a Nutshell” (Shows a cartoon about the furor about cartoons.)
  
• “Hundreds in Iran Protest Muhammad Drawings”
  
• “The Prophet's honor”

On a somewhat lighter note (but then again, almost anything without violence is arguably lighter), I am making today’s weird thing “Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds?”. Enjoy, and please, get used to the stuff that comes out of the taps.

Aaron