From The Editors, the best explanation of Bush’s shoe-dodging I’ve yet seen:
Judged as a display of alertness and ninja prowess, the President’s dodge is, indeed, impressive.  But George W. Bush has spent most of his life fucking things up horribly, and then escaping any consequences for his incompetence and indifference.  This is who he is.  What you have seen is not a moment of quick thinking, it was  the man’s essence.  He always escapes unharmed.

Muntadar al-Zaidi, the journalist who threw his shoes at George W. Bush during the president’s appearance in Baghdad, is being beaten in custody according to his brother. Dargham Zaidi told the BBC that his younger brother has “suffered a broken hand, broken ribs and internal bleeding.” The journalist is to be prosecuted with the speculated charges being “insulting a foreign leader and the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, who was standing next to President Bush during the incident.” The charges could carry up to a two year sentence. 
Though lawyers are clamouring …