The Bush war orphans’ sculpture of the shoe thrown at Bush has been removed by order of the Iraqi police because (get a load of this) “government property should not be used for something with a political bias.” What is government property if not political? Where better to make a political statement?

As Dwight Johnson, who informed me of this development, wrote: “Good to know that the death of all those Americans to bring democracy (including surely freedom of speech) to Iraq is working so well for them. Great lesson in free speech for these school children.”