Can't Take A Joke

All I did was yell "FIRE" in a crowded theatre. Jeez. In our great and grand liberal democracy you need to have a sense of humor about pornography,blasphemy, heresey, hate speech, painting a few swaztikas on the Jews houses, whatever. Actually, you do, you just always hope people will have more sense, taste, cool, tact. It is your right to express yourself,to say to the world "I am an ignorant, tasteless, moron, damn it!"
And you have the right to walk down the street in Compton at 2am but I wouldn't recommend it. Radical fringe or not, that kind of anger should be a message, in more ways than one. Did al Qaeda fly airplanes into Danish buildings?

Of course rioting Muslims is not about a few cartoons or a couple flushed Korans. It's about a long list of percieved and real injustice, conditions, dignity, power, history, that sort of thing. And a faith that is not just a Sunday sort of affair.

How can Iran make our occupation of Iraq more miserable? How entertained is North Korea? How nervous is Israel? How much will gas go up, interest rates, the foreign debt? How big can the US military get? Lordy!