If you weren't so busy throwing shoes at Bernard Madoff you would have seen these postings yesterday in Political Junkie:

The prospect of Caroline Kennedy actively seeking Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat.

The incident Sunday in Baghdad is not the first time a shoe has been used as a political metaphor.

The Electoral College, and a listing of electors in the past who failed to vote for the candidates to whom they were pledged.

Nobel Prize winners in the Cabinet.