Army of Danishes

As a token of support towards the Danish editorial cartoonists in their struggle against censorship-minded and homicidal jihadis I bought some Carlsberg beer and havarti cheese. What can I say? If deeply held precepts of Western civilization such as free speech require that I sacrifice $8.00 for a six-pack to the Danish economy in the name of solidarity I'm willing to go that extra mile.

The beer was underwhelming. But I can never tell, with a pricey export, whether the taste is what is brewers intended, or if the bottles were allowed to get warm somewhere during transportation process. I suspect Carlsberg might be a different experience fresh from the tap in downtown Copenhagen. The picture above is taken from the company website - and these gentlemen sure seem to be enjoying themselves.

Havarti, though, is quite a cheese. If you follow the link above you will see that the dairy farmers, on their website, advise cryptically that we should "never underestimate" havarti. I guess this is a cheese that might, at any moment, show off a few dangerous karate moves at the cocktail party - or maybe sit down at the piano and begin playing a sentimental ballad. Impressive!

And while we're on the topic of our mysteriously interconnected world where an ink drawing in Denmark can spell death in Nigeria - I received in the mail my copy of Glenn Reynold's Army of Davids, a late birthday present from the missus. My nightstand is heavy with books, but I intend to bump this to the front of the line and post a review, since the professor from Tennessee generally has insightful, prescient ideas about how media power structures are being inverted and transformed by this new information economy.