Any self-respecting terrorist would have worn Pradas

U.S. Representative Jane Harman, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, was required to remove her shoes twice while waiting in the same line at La Guardia Airport in New York. "It's probably because I bought a one-way ticket at the last minute, and because I have blond hair and a lot of wrinkles," she told The New York Times. Or maybe she just had ratty-looking shoes.

- Joe Bob Briggs