Can anyone out there tell me if Jyllands-Posten or any other newspaper or magazine that reprinted the cartoons offered rebuttal space to the Muslim communities in their towns, cities or countries?

I can't remember seeing any reference to them having done so.

And if that's indeed the case, it's a one-sided use of freedom of expression and bad journalistic practice.

 José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, says Europe must fight for its core values, including freedom of expression. But he also said European politicians must be vigilant to protect Muslims from prejudice.

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This Washington Post feature looks at how the global protest over a Danish newspaper's caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad evolved.

There are monsoon-like rains out there right now. Plus thunder. And lightning.

WTFF??

Afterward:

I went to a local meat shop Friday night. The guy told me at the beginning of the month, they had flies buzzing around the garbage container. In Toronto. In February.

And as I head off to work on Saturday, it's a not-so-balmy -13. On Monsoon night, it was +8.

The things you miss when you skip the book review pages on the weekend.

Marc Weisblott at Paved.ca has the basic story of how T.O. writer Ryan Bigge had unkindly reviewed Globe and Mail columnist Leah McLaren's new novel The Continuity Girl in the Toronto Star this past Sunday.

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A blog posting by the Guardian's Simon Avery asks whether the media should have published new photographs from Abu Ghraib prison, even though the photos date from 2003.

These BBC stories look at whether the 'cartoon' protests in Pakistan are really about the depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper or if something else is going on.

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The Freezing Point, an investigative newspaper in Beijing shut down by the Chinese authorities, is being allowed to re-open ... but without its previous editor and deputy editor.

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BBC: Iraq death squad 'caught in act'

BBC: New Abu Ghraib images stoke U.S. fears

British historian and Holocaust denier David Irving goes on trial in Vienna next week for a 1989 speech in which his claims the gas chambers at Auschwitz weren't used for mass killings. Not everyone thinks this is a good thing.

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You carry three shopping bags and your purse in one hand, with your BlackBerry in your free hand?

And when you put down your bags on the subway, you keep your BlackBerry in one hand while you rumage in your purse with your other hand?

In fact, you never lose physical touch with your BlackBerry and stare incessantly at the screen, even though you don't appear to be inputting anything?

Just asking.