Don't "Taze" Me, Bro!

Least we forget it, we Americans love a good fad. Hula-Hoops, disco, pet rocks, yappy rat-like miniature dogs, you name it, we love it. And it would appear that Iraqi reporter Muntazer "Taze" al-Zaidi has his pulse firmly on the collective American psyche when - just last Sunday - he began a new craze: throw your shoe at The Man.

Seems shoe throwing - both literal and figurative - is all the rage...when you're in a rage. Jeez.

Just this week, talking heads were all a-buzz with the latest shoe sightings. Three days ago a Bronx fireman gets pissed at a fire chief closing a firehouse...and pretends to throw his shoe at him. The View's Joy Behar slips off one of her C.F.M. pumps and pounds it, Khrushchev-like - in a rage because poor ol' Elisabeth Hasselbeck gets dissed*. And then today, some Schmo goes to a New York Transit Authority public hearing and threatens to throw his shoe at the head transit guy!*

Merde.

And you can now buy "I Love Shoes" and "Bagdad - I Throw a Shoe at You!" t-shirts. That's right...and you can buy them here.



Please. Make it. STOP.




Now that's what Ed would call a 'really big shoe'. A really big shoe full of crap.



*Note to Joy Behar: next time you take your shoe off, please do us all a favor, and drive that spiked heel through Elizabeth's forehead. Not that it would damage anything, mind you...but at least you would finally get me to watch your show.

*And did you see that?! Before the guy was able to take his shoe off he was surrounded and tackled by many NY transit cops. Which goes to show: New York cops can beat the crap out of Iraqi cops. With or without shoes.