Those damned cartoons

I've been following the controversy over the 12 drawings of Mohammed that have caused such a ruckus in Europe and the Muslim world.

A look at the cartoons themselves shows that the fuss over them is far out of proportion to the artwork itself: A few are unquestionably inflammatory; a couple are neutral or complimentary; at least one is intentionally ambuguous; and a few convey their message so poorly that no point is made or are just asinine.

It's hard to believe that so few media outlets in this country have shown the drawings.

Here, Eugene Volokh gets a lot right. Excerpts won't do it justice; go and read the whole thing.