two weeks from tomorrow is the eleventh anniversary of the day that Muntazer al-Zaidi threw his shoes at George W. Bush and instantly became a legend
the last I heard of him he was running for the Iraqi Parliament on the ticket of a coalition that included the Iraqi Communist Party, but the English media coverage of Iraq is so bad that I can't find very much about how he's doing. It *looks* like he won his election, so good for him