More Sad News

Between the stock market tanking and banks folding, I must confess to feeling pretty sad about this item in the Times. I was just a kid when The Satanic Verses came out - and I haven't read it, but I do remember seeing protests and hearing about the fatwa put out on Salman Rushdie. This kind of story really angers me. I'm just glad that the publisher is remaining strong in the face of this intimidation. Standing up to bullies is really the only way to go.