Our comic strip for today comes from Close to Home, by John McPherson.
It appeared on October 11 of this year.
Posted in Barefoot, Comics on 10:05 am, November 29, 2014| 1 Comment »
Our comic strip for today comes from Close to Home, by John McPherson.
It appeared on October 11 of this year.
Posted in Uncategorized on 9:27 am, November 27, 2014| 2 Comments »
Posted in Amazing Feets, Barefoot, Running on 2:09 pm, November 25, 2014| 1 Comment »
We are all aware of Abebe Bikila, who won the 1960 Olympic Marathon running barefoot. And I’ve introduced you to Bruce Tulloh, who won a 6-miler at the British games in 1962 barefoot, and the gold running the 5000m the at the European Championships.
Here is another barefoot winner from the 1960s.
Posted in Barefoot, Legal, Myth on 10:55 am, November 24, 2014| 7 Comments »
A while back I wrote about Business Owners and “Trust”, looking at a lot of negligence lawsuits and discussing a user comment regarding the cost and time of a possible lawsuit from a barefoot injury (while completely ignoring possible lawsuits from all sorts of other footwear injuries).
A small-business owner and friend has pointed out to me that it is the insurance companies who spend the time and money. Here’s what he told me.
Posted in Barefoot, Comics on 8:05 am, November 22, 2014| 1 Comment »
This week we spent some time looking at hippies and how they influenced the animus against bare feet. Today’s comic emphasizes that. It’s from a strip called Carnival by Dick Turner.
The cartoon appeared on November 21, 1971.
Posted in Barefoot, Life on 9:41 am, November 21, 2014| 1 Comment »
Posted in Barefoot, History, News on 8:37 am, November 20, 2014| 2 Comments »
In one of the comments to When NSNSNS Came to Albuquerque, it was asked whether the anti-barefoot attitude of the restaurants were already established before the NSNSNS signs appeared.
We can answer that.