A message I just sent the reader rep at the Strib

"Any talk down there about being the first US paper to join and support its European colleagues on the cartoon issue? I mean is anyone arguing it as a thing to consider?"

I wonder if it's a talk occurring at any paper stateside, in fact. They talk a lot about courage in these editorial offices: the courage to stand up to this and that. So I'm betting there may even be a race developing, to be the first one to be so courageous.