Run for your life

I'm thinking about taking up jogging.  And while the health results will probably be nice, I would be lying if I didn't say that the real reason behind this decision is much more pragmatic.  

You see, it's always the early morning jogger who discovers the corpses.  And some of those corpses are bound to have money on them.

By now, I'm sure everyone out there has heard about the whole journalist-throws-his-shoe-at-the-President thing.  Big news, very exciting.  

But get this, gangstarrs--according the cnn.com, the throwing of a shoe is considered an INSULT IN THE MUSLIM WORLD.  (Thanks to CNN for blowing the lid off this one.)

I mean, what the heck, right?  How can two cultures as fundamentally different as ours and their ever really hope to get along. 

Imagine a world where you can no longer throw your shoe at a waiter in lieu of leaving a tip.  A world where you can't throw a shoe at your mother for Christmas as a last minute gift.

Honestly, and I hate to use this word, it's barbaric.