Your tax dollars at work

The United States government is buying ad time on Pakistani television, with Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama explaining that--honest!--the U.S. didn't have anything to do with that awful YouTube video.

Meanwhile, one of the demonstrators--the demonstrations are "encouraged by the [Pakistani] government," Reuters tells us--explained what it will take to calm the situation: "Our demand is that whoever has blasphemed against our holy Prophet should be handed over to us so we can cut him up into tiny pieces in front of the entire nation."

Fifteen Pakistanis died in yesterday's riots.