You wouldn’t want to piss off John Coatsworth in the playground. Coatsworth, Acting Dean for the School of International and Public Affairs at New York’s Columbia University, has managed to incite controversy this week by allowing the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to speak at the Ivy League institution.

With most Americans in uproar about Ahmadinejad’s ideas – he has declared the Holocaust a “myth” and that Israel should be “wiped off the map” - it strikes us here at the Village Idiot as rather big words from a little man. And little men usually get their comeuppance. You hear me, Tom Cruise?

On the plus side, arrangements for Ahmadinejad are less stringent than what Sydney had to endure during APEC. Idiot assumes the Americans have figured that one dangerous world leader isn’t worth the hassle that twenty-two were.