It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world. I liked the movie (that should’ve made the list of favorites). I don’t much care for the reality.

Here’s Michelle Malkin’s list of worldwide government and editorial cringing in the face of the … what, cartoon protesters? I don’t know what else to call them. For goodness’ sake, they’re CARTOONS. Freedom of the press is in remission because of cartoons. Property has been destroyed, death threats have been made, people have been terrorized, injured and a few killed because of cartoons.

All of this makes me feel like saying, “Who are these people? What kind of religion allows such things?”

(And BTW, I was wrong when I thought that Angry Folk would be quick to say that Christians really aren’t any different. So far we’ve been spared that ludicrous indignity. But here’s a big surprise: it turns out to be Bush’s fault.

But eventually the focus of this conflict will shift back to the United States, the undisputed leader of “the West.” With all his talk of freedom as a universal right, President Bush pretends to understand that U.S. support of corrupt dictatorships in places such as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan contributes to the feeling that Muslims are under attack and helps give strength to fundamentalism and jihad. Yet the Bush administration continues to prop up these same autocrats, some of whom happen to sit on huge reserves of oil, while giving little more than lip service to those in the crowds that took to the streets over some undistinguished Danish cartoons.

So George Bush is to blame for not “being there” for millions of violent, maniacal thugs. Right. Got it. Yep, sounds like an impeachable offense to me.)