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I've been informed by several friends that the comment function on this site has ceased to be. Dreadfully sorry about that; I've left this blog to the woodland creatures for some time now, so no real surprise that it's suffered some decay. I hope to have a makeshift system up and running by midweek, although my technological incompetence guarantees that any and all improvements will come from other, abler hands.

Meanwhile, it occurs to me that all these posts on humor have been, perhaps predictably, largely humorless. Let's rectify that with an interjection from a friend:

[...] just wanted to note my favorite irony of the whole cartoon situation: the fact that Muslims are responding with fanatic violence to the portrayal of Muhammad as a fanatically violent man. As the expat Canadian Evan Kirchoff notes at his blog 101-280, commenting on his juxtaposition of the Bomb Turban cartoon and a protestor holding a "Behead Those Who Insult Islam" sign: "So if I drop the visual metaphor on the left and just draw a picture of the guy on the right, does he then show up outside my house with an *even angrier* sign?"