Morning Yellow | 12.15

It's true: Santa has YC|RC on his RSS feed. So, it's safe to assume these folks just landed on the Naughty List:

- Iraqi journalist Muntathar al Zaidi (who understandably may not be concerned with reindeer and the North Pole and such) on Sunday attempted to introduce President Bush to his loafers:

The incident occurred at a press conference in Baghdad after Mr. Bush arrived aboard the Secret Ship Lollypop, which is to say no one knew His Deciderness was showing up until it happened. That might explain how a hastily-assembled press conference descended into chaos, though perhaps it's better viewed as emblematic of how American officials have underestimated Iraqis at every turn.

I'm not, however, going to pass judgment on a entire war with a yellow card, and I'm not inclined to card one man for tossing his shoes at another responsible for reducing his city to rubble. So, who gets the card?

The card goes to the security guards who, as Adam Ashton reports, as the press conference was drawing to a close, "took away two more Iraqi journalists because one of them called Zaidi's protest 'courageous.'" They were released shortly thereafter at (shock!) the urging on American officials. Security guards cautioned per Section B-6 for failure to spread democracy (the good kind).

- Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday evening, college footaball's highest honor short of having Keith Jackson call your title game. Oddsmakers had predicted for days that Bradford would win, but sportswriters aren't the type to get muddled down in practical reality.

Take Rick Telander at the Chicago Sun-Times, who wrote that he chose Florida's Tim Tebow not just for his on-the-field performance, but because he "never swears and wears Biblically-referenced under-eye patches, [and] has an A-minus scholastic average."

Not surprisingly, God and GPA don't win you the Heisman Trophy. Telander cautioned per Section B-1 for basic math: 48 touchdowns - 28 touchdowns =20 fewer touchdowns scored by Tim Tebow than Sam Bradford.