Icelandic Cartoonist Has Dark Sense of Humor

From this: Nordic humor is often seen as a little bit too dark for the rest of the world. Especially if you think about Iceland, the most sparsely populated country in Europe covered with glaciers and still erupting volcanoes. As Hugleikur Dagsson, a famed local cartoonist has said, “Iceland is very cold, very bleak and very expensive,” and his funny and twisted sketches really showcase this.

Decent people find it gratifying that homophobia is fading in most parts of the world.  Here’s a cartoon that wouldn’t be at all funny were it not for that slow attenuation.

Jimmy Carter said: “Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things—he never said that gay people should be condemned.”

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