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As you may have heard, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi (at right) was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday for a little-known altercation during which he threw a shoe at U.S. President George W. Bush. It’s kind of a bummer, and in a deliciously Kafka-esque way says a lot about the humorless nature of bureaucracy. [...]