So the Salon is "brave" enough to post three-year old Abu Ghraib photos, in furtherance of a story already has been as exhaustively reported as any this decade? Yet Ms. Walsh feels no journalistic obligation whatsoever to show its readers the allegedly offensive cartoons that are the subject of spreading riots all around the world TODAY, for which scores of people have died and continue to die? The journalistic cowardice of Salon and Ms. Walsh in particular knows no bounds. The real, unspoken difference here is that Ms. Walsh knows, in publishing these three year old photos, no one from the Bush Administration is going to fire bomb her garage. She obviously feels differently about publishingthe photos. But if Ms. Walsh is too frightened to properly do her job, than she should tender her resignation and let someone else do it for her. Shame on Salon.

This is the most idiotic column I have read in a long time. If Newark residents are killing one another over drugs, then that is a problem they have created for themselves, not one imposed on them by "the Man." This sort of lefty, blame-others philosophy leaves people forever mired in poverty. Fortunately, Mayor Booker is very much in the self-empowerment school, and not a believer in this garbage.

Kamiya makes passing reference to the country being "non-Christian" but no discussion of how it got that way -- namely, through the second worst genocide and ethnic cleaning (after the Holocaust) in human history. (Indeed, Hitler modeled his extermination of the Jews off of Turkey's actions.) In the early part of this century, millions of Armenians, Greeks and Nestorian (Arab) Christians, the then-majority of Asia Minor's population, were systematically round up and exterminated or (if lucky) deported in order to create a pure-Muslim state. To walk over the blood of these millions of victims, without even passing reference to (or apparently even knowledge of) their fate, is appalling and contemptible. But the important thing is that Kamiya had a great vacation.

If Kamiya wants to pay for his family vacation by penning a frivolous online travel piece, God bless him. But for him to write about the "fascinating" "non-Christian" country that is Turkey without even a short nod to the truly horrific manner in which it became "non-Christian" is, frankly, offensive. Either Kamiya is completely ignorant or unbelievably callous. It is as if he wrote a travel piece about Germany or Poland and described it as "wonderful" and "Jew-free."