Newsflash: Iain Enters the Cartoonish Fray

My first and only Google-able reaction to the cartoon protests is thus: It is unfortunate that the decision to print, broadcast, or to omit to print or broadcast the cartoons of Muhammad is left to a select group of (mostly) men with extremely large and flammable egos; people whose job and responsibility revolve around generating curiosity in their end product; people who, by their very nature, are used to engaging in one-way dialogue and being cursory about their responsibility to anything and anyone except the tenets of their widely-detested profession; people who have something to prove; people who will, despite the gutterwash of blood in the Middle East, re-circulate jokey renditions of a prophet sacred to millions of people; people who choose to accept the nervously-moral, coffee-hazed newsroom view of free speech and not the laughably immoral high ground of gun-toting, intellectually-outdated lunatics; people more courageous than the moderates; people more interested in standing with the few rather than the many - whatever you think - and here, I will posit that you think thusly: the cartoons are bad; the reactions are also bad - you must hand it to the glory-seeking, egotistical, insensitive editors who spawned the crisis that has people shot dead in the streets, having embassies burned to the ground, having smoke-choked lunatics jump to their deaths, because they took a stand for something they believed in and refused to engage in a milky, copped out, half-assed, dilluted, and fully compromised view of the world and not bowing to the guns, Korans, Bibles, and religiously illogical lunatics of our world - and for that, I salute them: Cheers.