More and more newspapers reprint the cartoon as free speech defense Europe-wide … France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Germany etc. Definitely very good point from Die Welt: “The protests from Muslims would be taken more seriously if they were less hypocritical. When syrian TV broadcasted a show portraiting rabbis as cannibals in prime time, the imams were silent.”

As announced before BBC Czech section closed down yesterday :( Check its 67 years history here.

Don’t know what to think about latest affair with prophet Muhammad cartoon printed in danish newspaper. It looks like the arabs definitively lost (or never had?) their self-reflection. Boycott, diplomats recall, demonstrations… the oil blinded their minds. Nonetheless …

Here is the coverage:
BBC 1,
BBC 2,
BBC 3,
BBC 4,
Wikipedia

And of course the cartoon itself:

Maybe the most sane person in this area is quite unexpectedly G. Bush (?!) as he noted in his State of the Union speech that America is addicted to oil and the way to break this addiction is the research of alternative and renewable energy sources. He wants to cut oil imports from Middle East by 75% by 2025. Hope this will not end by plundering Alaska, but it looks at least promising, because knowing the problem is the start and it actually could happen (remember JFK’s Moon challenge or Reagan’s star wars).

Unfortunately I’m sick. So my time is now full of lying in bed, feeling bad, drinking a LOT of hot tea and taking pills. Actually the pills are Augmentin 1G antibiotics (more info here).

This reminds me of 100 years anniversary of the inventer of another important chemical substance:

There was another great sarcastic editorial from my favorite publicist Martin Komarek in MF Dnes. Check it out …Paroubek, Gross, Spidla a vlkodlak.