Along with the 20-degrees-warmer Washington climate, this is how you want to reemerge from a Toronto vacation: seeing a young Iraqi journalist throw his shoes at the man who destroyed his country. Via Teddy, ThinkProgress has the clip, but I can’t seem to embed it, so I’m going to take TPM’s:

Teddy’s commenter Erdia translates what 28-year old Munathar al-Zaidi yelled as he threw his shoes, surely intended to pelt Bush with their soles as Iraqis pelted Saddam’s effigy five and a half years ago: "This is the gift from the Iraqis, this is the farewell kiss, you dog" and "This is from the widows, the orphans and those killed in Iraq." Bush, of course, will never acknowledge the lives that he has ruined, instead using al-Zaidi’s pain as a way to congratulate himself for destroying Iraq. The full grotesquerie was captured elegantly by the New York Times:

He also called the incident a sign of democracy, saying, “That’s what people do in a free society, draw attention to themselves,” as the man’s screaming could be heard outside.

al-Zaidi was apparently "detained on unspecified charges," according to the Times, something else that people do in a free society, of course. What an ingrate this bloody WOG is, unable to appreciate the benefits that George Bush so valiantly provided him.