Sean Delonas

The New York Post's Page Six features an item about being treated to lunch by Heather Mills, the ex-wife of Beatle Paul McCartney.The headline of the piece was HEATHER: A LEG UP ON LUNCH, which apparently is a reference to the fact that Ms. Mills is missing a leg.

Pretty funny stuff. But not as funny as the last time Page Six made the joke: HEATHER LOSES HER P.R. LEG, TOO, July 26, 2008. Or the time before that: NO LEGAL LEG FOR MILLS, February 6, 2008. Or the time before that time: LEGS FOR SALE, November 6, 2007.

It's not just Richard Johnson and his merry band of gossips who love making fun of Ms. Mills' missing leg.  read more »

Speaking of The New York Post's fair-and-balanced DNC '08 Convention Special, the above left Getty Images photo of a Hillary Clinton supporter in Denver (here's another version from The New York Times this afternoon) bears an uncanny resemblance to this morning's cartoon by Post controversialist Sean Delonas.

Thankfully, Mr. Delonas didn't see fit to include his signature sheep in the original drawing.

As the violence "triggered" by some Danish cartoons builds, the discussion about why we seem largely immune to this kind of thing has started up again.

Certainly, provocative, blasphemous cartoons are hardly unusual. You have to figure the Post's Sean Delonas's take on this is, roughly, "amateurs," having done cartoons that grated on Muslims and Arabs for years.

What's been less noticed is New York Muslims' response to the Post's occasionally anti-Islamic cartooning: A number of Yemeni newsdealers in Brooklyn, for a time at least, refused to sell the paper, prompting a Post executive to meet with them in 2002. (I wrote about this in the Sun that May; unfortunately, you have to pay, or go to Nexis, to read it.) Other newsstands continue to boycott the Post, including one on Broadway in the 60s, where the guys behind the counter nervously said yesterday they didn't know why they don't sell it.

Whatever else is going on, that seems like a sane instrument of pressure, as long as it doesn't get too effective.