Saturday Comic

Continuing with our sequence of strips from Red and Rover, again the joke isn’t about bare feet, but they are just a natural part of a 10-year-old boy in the summer in the 1960s. This comic appeared on June 20 last year.

Red and Rover, June 20, 2014

 

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Saturday Comic

Here’s the next comic in the sequence of strips from Red and Rover, a strip set in the 1960s. Last week Red couldn’t wait to go barefoot. So now he is outdoors sitting under a tree. Barefooted. They go together. This comic appeared on June 19 last year.

Red and Rover, June 19, 2014

 

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It’s a Dangerous World Out There

Last week the Today Show did a feature about how bad flip-flops are, Here’s how to wear flip-flops without ruining your feet. They always hate flip-flops, and end up saying stupid stuff.

This one was no different.

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Saturday Comic

For the next few Saturdays I’ll show a sequence of comics. They’re from Red and Rover, a strip set in the 1960s. The joke isn’t always necessarily about bare feet, but it’s summer, and you’re a kid. So of course you’re barefoot.

This comic appeared on June 18 last year.

Red and Rover, June 18, 2014

In subsequent strips we’ll see that Red is true to his word.

 

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How Officials Cheat — Part 2

Yesterday, in Part 1, I looked at the National Park Regulations, as compiled in their Superintendent’s Compendiums, for Wind Cave National Park, along with Mammoth Cave and Carlsbad Caverns. They all require shoes inside their caves, but with no good reason.

Carlsbad Caverns also requires shoes in their buildings, so I decided to see if I could find other National Parks that require shoes.

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How Officials Cheat — Part 1

I’ve written before about how Judges and Administrators Cheat. Let’s do a bit on how officials cheat.

Here’s a hint on how they back up their decisions: they pull it out of their butts. And like anything pulled out of a butt, it never smells very good.

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Saturday Comic

Isn’t this the way you’re supposed to picnic? This is the Dennis the Menace from May 21, 2013.

Dennis the Menace, May 21, 2013

 

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The Spanish Have Idiot Podiatrists, Too

A couple of days ago the Spanish newspaper, El País had a very interesting article about how many actors are being spotted going barefoot in and about town. In ¿Por qué a los famosos les ha dado por andar descalzos? (Why have the famous been walking barefoot?). The article does a nice job talking about the benefits of going barefoot.

But of course they also have to talk to a podiatrists who hates it.

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Memory Rock

On Memorial Day I went on another of the organized hikes at Clear Creek Metro Park. As with the hike described in Winnowing Rock and Sowing Seeds, I was accompanied by fellow-barefoot Lee Parker, from Upstate New York.

We were hoping for a few more barefooters, but it just didn’t happen.

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