Monty Python

Like Monty Python’s Black Knight — who claims invincibility, even as his arms and legs are hacked off in battle — Norm Coleman and his team have maintained confidence that they’ll prevail over Democrat Al Franken to win Minnesota’s U.S. Senate seat. With Coleman making his appeal to the state Supreme Court, he’s running out [...]

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 [...]