Boing Boing

Flying Spaghetti Monster and Lizard People got the big press at yesterday’s State Canvassing Board’s review of challenged ballots in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race, but another challenge by Coleman shows how the incumbent has, in the words of TPM’s Eric Kleefeld, “puffed up his apparent lead” with “brazenly frivolous attempts to get votes for Al [...]

The annals of politicized shoe gestures, far as I can tell, are less than voluminous. Coming quickly to mind: Nikita Khrushchev’s “We will bury you,” emphasized by a hammered sole. So-called “shoe-bomber,” Richard Reid, busted while allegedly trying to ignite a fuse in his sneakers. Super spy Austin Powers, stung by a precision-pitched loafer, who [...]