DIGG THIS The most remarkable thing about the gesture was the fact that it was an act of defiant contempt, rather than one of criminal violence. Bush’s reaction was remarkable only in the sense that he displayed, for perhaps the last time before he becomes deservedly inconsequential, the depth of his ignorance and the utter impregnability of his unearned self-regard. Immediately after a Iraqi reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi disrupted a Baghdad press conference by hurling both shoes at Bush, calling him a “dog” and denouncing him in the name of “the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq,” … Continue reading Flying Shoes, Bursting Bubbles