Is Not the Word Processor Mightier Than the Shoe?

Boy Howdy! The news media is a having a ball with the Iraqi Shoe Throwing Contest. It's all over the internet and during my late night meanderings at least two late night talk show hosts, Letterman and Ferguson, had shoes thrown during their shows. Paul Shaffer threw one at Letterman and Craig Ferguson threw his own shoe at the camera. On top of all this it has been revealed that First Lady Laura did not even know the President had left for Iraq in the middle of the night. She said the family and friends gathered around the TV to watch his press conference. Everyone there was stunned and amazed at the size 10 shoe hurler. They also liked the fact that President Bush shrugged it off and treated it as an annoyance. Oh yeah, they have Mr. Ali Wingtip Chucker Baba in jail now. Hmmmmm, he's a journalist at a press conference. Why didn't he just write something really bad? Throwing shoes? Wonder what type of hashish he was smoking in that water pipe?

It puzzles me that this incident occurred. If this country is so backwards they have to take the time to pull off perfectly good shoes and hurl them at someone they don't like, why don't they grow up and enter the civilized era of the world? Shucks, embrace the American way! Make an obscene gesture or beat the hell out of each other. Wait, the Secret Service would have stopped a physical confrontation. Sure wouldn't have been a fair fight! I think George could have taken him in a head to head fight though. Did you see how he bobbed and weaved to avoid the tossed shoes? And not once but twice! Whew! Bet he's got a mean right hook to go with those moves!

During rounds today I may stick an old sneaker in the laptop case to satisfy my curiosity. They don't call me the intercontinental nerdling fer nuthin'!! You've been warned. Gosh, only one thing would have made this incident better. Mr. President should have flipped him off as he threw the second shoe (insert evil grin here). After all, many years ago President Jimmy Carter said 'ass' on national TV...

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
~Albert Einstein