Pow! Smack! Wham! The madness escalates across the Muslim world as protests against the Danish cartoon of Muhammed continue. This Houston Chronicle story says that 15 people were killed in Nigera today. One poor fellow met his death at the hands of a lynch mob.

"An Associated Press reporter saw mobs of Muslim protesters swarm through the city center with machetes, sticks and iron rods. One group threw a tire around a man, poured gas on him and set him ablaze."

I suppose if you can't kill the person you really want to, you might as well settle for some random pedestrian. That makes perfect sense.

For more on the absurdity of the whole situation I recommend this recent article from Tech Central Station.

-- Kevin D. Rollins