In light of the Charlie Hebdo killings, I thought I’d devote the next few posts to Paris just as a way to hold the people of Paris in mind. First, the cartoons that drew ire from fundamentalists. Most mainstream news outlets haven’t got the balls to reprint them for fear of giving offense. Not even Fox. AP went so far as to remove images of Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ after the conservative rag, The Washington Examiner, complained about AP’s apparent double standard. In the circumstances, it makes Christian fundamentalists look like opportunistic dicks. (I’ve written about the Piss Christ here if you want to learn more.) Nevertheless, some outlets have posted the offending images. You can view them at Huffington Post, for example. I guess it’s harder to attack an online media outlet.
Now for a few photographs of life in Paris when people aren’t being terrorized:
