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I was recently interviewed by the Charlottesville Podcasting Network about the Danish cartoon controversy. You can listen here.

As a political cartoonist -- of Danish descent, no less! -- I would seem like the perfect candidate to have strong feelings about the matter. While I find the uproar culturally significant, I think it has a lot less to do with cartooning than with other issues. A fascinating tidbit found via Tom Tomorrow's site: the culture editor of the Danish paper is a close affiliate of the radical neocon Daniel Pipes, the man behind McCarthyite group Campus Watch, which was the subject of this cartoon from a couple years ago. Here's the actual post by John Sugg.