Mick Hartley

Worth your time if you're a fan of Christopher Hitchens: an interview (well, part one) with Michael J Totten. Much discussion, amongst other things, on the notion of offence, and those who think we shouldn't give it: 

MJT: It's hard to psychoanalyze other people, but I sometimes suspect that blaming Salman Rushdie and Kurt Westergaard, as many writers have, for bringing down the wrath of these maniacs from Somalia and Iran, may be a way of convincing themselves they'll be safe as long as they don't cross the same line. Any writer or graphic artist must, at least for a second, think oh fuck, they could come for me if I don't watch out. They can say to themselves they'll be fine if they don't cross that line.

Hitchens: But the line will never stop shifting.