Legal Commentary

On Shoe-Throwing

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

kast_sko is a Norwegian website dedicated to letting you throw a flash shoe at George W. Bush.

I gather some folks are thinking of organizing a real-life event to throw shoes onto the White House lawn. Arguably in bad taste, like the website, if it seems to somehow endorse the act of throwing shoes at people. I’m fine with shoes on lawns, but not for hard objects thrown at people.

But here’s my question: If that shoes-on-the-White-House-lawn idea takes off, would that be the first major cultural import from Iraq since the war began?

Full post as published by Discourse.net on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).