Two of the comic web news sites I go to, spend a lot of time on the Danish Cartoons controversy. It's a very big deal in Europe. Huge. And what does Osama Bin Ladin pop up to complain about ?-- the Danish cartoons.

Americans are just going.....what? What's the big deal?

The rest of the world takes the issue of cartoons and comics so much more seriously than Americans.

If you take cartoons seriously, like the Asians, and the Europeans and most especially the Islamic countries, then the content of those cartoons matter greatly.

If you don't take comics seriously, like most Americans, it all seems like a big deal about nothing.

Just another manifestation of American provincialism.

I'm just as guilty. I usually just pass over all the news stories about it.

But it was interesting to find out that it was the most important thing on Osama's mind.