3023 I disapprove!

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

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I guess the above quote could apply to Vic. I may have to go a step farther and flirt a little.

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NBC's Today show this morning did a piece on walking/running shoes. The word "support" was used a lot.

Why do people think feet need "support"? In their natural original form, they don't! Feet have been naturally engineered to support the body for standing, walking, and running, and for providing a shock absorber for the back. In their natural form, they are perfect for that.

When a part of your body has spent weeks or months in a cast or brace, the muscles atrophy, and if it's a tight cast, especially when you're growing, it can misshape the bones. This "support" myth has parents cramming toddler feet into hard-soled shoes that shape the foot and don't allow the muscles in the foot, ankle, and calf to develop as designed. Lacing the instep down tightly can flatten the arch.

So yeah, I guess all these self-appointed experts saying that the foot needs "support" do need support, because their feet, and the feet of those they advise, have been purposely damaged since toddlerhood.

I'm lucky. My feet were so tiny that my mother couldn't find "proper" hard-soled shoes to fit me. I grew up in soft booties and barefoot. When I started school, the authorities insisted on proper hard shoes, so I stumbled around in shoes that were too big, with cotton stuffed in the toes. As soon as I got home from school every day they came off. My feet are very happy, thank you. I do not feel a need for "support".

When Daughter was small, I kept her in booties or barefoot as much as I could, and when schools insisted on shoes to protect the sole, I went with soft shoes, like tennis or boat shoes.

Now I'm hearing that parents are putting high heels on little girls.

Many people object to it because of the sexualizing of the children. I am disgusted by the damage they're doing to the kids' legs and feet. I can't be the only person who thinks about stuff like that, can I?

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Heidi Klum, in an AP interview, talking about how she lost the baby weight: "...I also do not sit on the couch with my feet up and eat one potato chip bag after the next, and ..."

Do people usually eat potato chip bags? And how do you eat one after the next? Temporal dissonance there.

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Picture in the newspaper of a young couple, Jay and Megan Mkrtschjan. If that name isn't misspelled, it should be.

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I have come across another couple "engaged" for ten years, with three kids, who "can't afford to get married". It still pisses me off as much as ever. The official paper and a JP costs a few dollars. What they should say is that they can't afford the big fancy party wedding.

But even that isn't the truth.

They really just don't want to officially commit, and they can't look each other in the eye and say that. Otherwise, they could go the JP route, and then have the big wedding when they can finally afford it, if ever.

Yeah. It's the commitment they can't do.

Actually, "they" is probably inaccurate. I suspect it should be "he". As long as they aren't married, and especially if there are children, he has a threat over her head, whether it has ever been spoken or not. And she foolishly thinks the kids are enough of a hold on him.

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I have to sell stock and pay bills today. I wonder if that has contributed to my disapproving mood.

I was in a discussion a few days ago with someone who is also upset about a lot of things going on in the country and the world. She said that people have to take action, have to DO something, and that she felt guilty because she didn't see that there was anything she could do that would make any difference. Bandaids are not a solution.

I thought about that a while. You know, there are a few people whose death would at least shut them up, keep them from spreading hate and divisiveness. It's a quick and easy solution to at least one small part of one problem to take the gun in the den drawer, point it, and shoot it. At least one can feel one acted.

Maybe assassins aren't as crazy as I thought they were. Or maybe I'm that crazy.
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