Fear and Breastfeeding in Las Vegas

Fear and Breastfeeding in Las Vegas is the name of a blog entry from The Leaky Boob, a “lactivist” (love the word) blog about breastfeeding. It’s a great story (go read it) of a breastfeeding mother standing up to a restaurant in Las Vegas that questioned her breastfeeding of her child there.

I also think it is related to barefooting (though, of course, I can find that just about everything is related to barefooting).

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All You Can Do Is Laugh

There was a story in yesterday’s Columbus Dispatch that Gregg Dodd is leaving his job as communications director for the Statehouse.

I’m afraid it was amusing, and, from my point of view, quite ironic.

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Shoeless Employee Leads to Health Department Inspection

Via The Primalfoot Alliance comes a pointer to a story from last September in Corpus Christi in which the Health Department initiated an inspection of a restaurant because one of their employees was photographed after having taken her shoes off.

Even the Health Department doesn’t know its own rules.

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Barefoot in the Parks

I left the Grand Canyon heading east, to Desert View. This is the location where the southward-flowing Colorado River makes a right turn and heads west, towards the main Grand Canyon Village.

I made some interesting observations at Desert View regarding barefootedness in the National Parks.

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Abyss Bus Barefoot Ban

So there I was, at the end of the Hermit’s Rest bus route, and the driver, the same one who had driven me out there while I was barefoot, asked “Do you have any shoes?”

I guess I’d had a bit of warning.

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Sick Transit; No Glory

It is libraries that are the most ridiculous when it comes to government entities that ban bare feet. An internet search I did a while back showed that around 2/3 of libraries in the U.S. have a shoe rule.

Coming in second are transit systems.

Even worse with transit systems, often the drivers are ignorant as to whether there is such a policy.

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Statehouse Redux

When last we left our intrepid hero, the Statehouse had responded to his request for a perpetual waiver from their rule by sending him a 3-page application.

OK. So, why not fill it out?

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The Statehouse Responds

You all may recall that on March 22, 2012, the day that the barefoot ban went into effect at the Statehouse, I wrote a letter to them asking for a perpetual waiver, citing my testimony about how my going barefooted helps my knees, etc..

Today, 2 and a half weeks later, I finally got a reply from them.

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Windmills

I have always been a fan of Pablo Picasso’s sketch, Don Quixote.

We have a reproduction sitting above our fireplace.

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Sympathetic Statehouse

Regular readers will recall our attempt to stop the shoe rule in the Statehouse. New readers can catch up looking at these earlier entries.

It turns out that the Statehouse really is sympathetic.

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Statehouse Committee Meeting Notes

The meeting notes from the Ohio legislative committee that had a chance to overturn their new shoe rule (but didn’t) are now available, here. They don’t release them until they are officially approved by the next meeting of the committee.

I thought I’d go over them with my recollections.

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My Last Day of Freedom

OK, I may be exaggerating just a bit. But the Statehouse shoe rule goes into effect today.

To “celebrate”, I made my last visit there yesterday.

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Interviewed on KIRO Radio

As a result of my Statehouse story appearing in the Columbus Dispatch on Thursday, I was contacted by the producer of the Ross and Burbank radio show in Seattle, WA. They are a CBS affiliate, and seemed to be quite serious and willing to listen, so I talked to them.

It was a pretty good interview.

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Education, Schmeducation

This is a follow-up to my entry, A Boy Named Sue, updated because of the results I reported yesterday in Statehouse Shootdown.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m all in favor of education, and educate people about the benefits of going barefooted.

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Statehouse Shootdown

The Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review held their meeting yesterday to review the Statehouse ban on bare feet.

This was our chance to get them to invalidate the rule.

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