Looking Out To Sea

Apparently the cartoon on the front of The New Yorker depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Islamic terrorists burning the Stars and Stripes in the Oval Office isn’t good satire because

satire needs to be completely over-the-top, and this isn’t.

Just roll that one around inside your head for a while.

As one commenter on the Guardian blog says:

In any country there are sophisticated people capable of seeing through several layers of irony and there are those whose humour and comprehension is limited to custard-pie-in-the-face.

…and then there are those who claim sophistication but would censure others for fear of the reaction.