The critical success of Brokeback Mountain has spawned a raft of Internet video parodies and some reasonably good-humoured late-night jokes. Here's the AP story on CTV.ca (with a link to one of the better parodies -- Brokeback to the Future).

This is a little film that offers some yucks to anyone who's familiar with the scene on Toronto's Queen West -- although the star should have really been wearing more black. :)

This NYT commentary talks about how the populations in many parts of rural Nebraska are lower than they were in 1920. People in the northern part of the Great Plains (hello Saskatchewan, Manitoba!) might well find some stuff in here that will resonate with them.

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This NYT story look at how Iran's religious and national identities are practically inseparable, and links that reality to the current conflicts over the Muhammad cartoons and the nuclear issue.

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Jyllands-Posten, the paper at the heart of the Muhammad cartoons storm, refused to print some satirical Jesus cartoons offered to them three years ago.

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Most of the papers in Europe that reprinted the Muhammad cartoons were right-leaning, and now a right-leaning Israeli paper -- the Jerusalem Post -- has gotten into the game. However, the images are miniaturized.

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