You're right. It's hard to enforce decent potty protocol on a dog (as per canine hookworm).
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You're right. It's hard to enforce decent potty protocol on a dog (as per canine hookworm).
Here's what the Wall Street Journal Guide to Business Style and Usage says (yes, there really is such a book) about
italics: "Use italics for emphasis and for more obscure foreign words and phrases."
I guess it boils down to how obscure au naturel is.
Your canine hookworm diagnosis makes more and more sense, as the neighbor who got it also had a dog, and at the time of my unwanted guest's extended podal holiday, our dog was full of fleas that would bite me about the feet and ankles. Thanks.
I didn't forget them, scedastic had already mentioned them in the post I was adding to.
- "why don't they cringe at bare feet in yoga? Why isn't everyone disgusted beyond belief in martial arts classes?"
Reporters used to always italicize "sans", but I guess it slowly became less obscure.
They love using sans as in sans shoes, in this case sans sneakers as an alternative to barefoot, and of course au naturel is a favorite descripter as well.
Who knows what Rupert prefers?
This one may have just slipped past the editor for all we know, after all he or she allowed for calling me by my full name as well as Dr. in the sentence in the second paragraph that mentioned my profession as well, but then went on to refer to me as Mr. three more times in the article.
One thing I do know for sure: I'm probably the only one dorky enough 1) to know that the WSJ even had a style guide; and 2) to bother looking it up.
I wonder if Anjali Athavaley even knows about it,
maybe it's considered old school and with a push for a larger share of a younger upwardly mobile crowd they may deliberately ignore it.
I mean they even put a picture of "just feet" with the owners name in the caption on the front page.
That's somwhat out of character for a conservative publication like the WSJ!
maybe it's considered old school and with a push for a larger share of a younger upwardly mobile crowd they may deliberately ignore it.
I mean they even put a picture of "just feet" with the owners name in the caption on the front page.
That's somwhat out of character for a conservative publication like the WSJ!
From the articles comments, from a reader whose avatar appears to be a statue of a Confederate soldier:
"This is mostly the same folks who buy into the Left's foundation myth that everything was wonderful in primitive hunting and gathering times, before agriculture, disease and IBM ruined everything. Let them keep it up and ensure their running careers will be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
Aside from the writer's inability to get his subject and his verb to agree, his point seems to be that barefoot running is really an extension of (all of our) clearly liberal political bent. Now, I'll be the first one to admit that my political dial falls somewhat left of center, but I'll be damned but I didn't realize that barefoot running's appeal would fall away if I would only get a daily dose of Fox News. As for our running careers being "solitary, nasty, brutish and short," well, he couldn't have described me more accurately. How do he know? Must have something to do with the Right's foundation myth that all runners are arugula-chomping, granola-loving, socialist minded hippies.
"This is mostly the same folks who buy into the Left's foundation myth that everything was wonderful in primitive hunting and gathering times, before agriculture, disease and IBM ruined everything. Let them keep it up and ensure their running careers will be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
Aside from the writer's inability to get his subject and his verb to agree, his point seems to be that barefoot running is really an extension of (all of our) clearly liberal political bent. Now, I'll be the first one to admit that my political dial falls somewhat left of center, but I'll be damned but I didn't realize that barefoot running's appeal would fall away if I would only get a daily dose of Fox News. As for our running careers being "solitary, nasty, brutish and short," well, he couldn't have described me more accurately. How do he know? Must have something to do with the Right's foundation myth that all runners are arugula-chomping, granola-loving, socialist minded hippies.
What burns me is the author's gross misrepresentation of the people that she quotes. Having some idea of specific BRS members' opinions on BFR based on their posts, I know that she took many quotes out of context. I suspect that she did the same to Hanna Brooks Olson, the person who complained, who apparently uses Merrell Pace Gloves herself.
www.blisstree.com/2012/01/30/fitness/run/i-officially-love-barefoot-running-minimalist-shoes-958/
www.blisstree.com/2012/01/30/fitness/run/i-officially-love-barefoot-running-minimalist-shoes-958/
Adopting a lifestyle and fitness regimen that fit(s)[, Thom] our evolutionary makeup is probably the most conservative position one can take. I've never understood how self-identified conservatives can be against conserving health and environment, my own tepid politics notwithstanding. No need to hobble along in high-heeled Hobbesian hell.
, Thom] our evolutionary makeup is probably the most conservative position one can take. I've never understood how self-identified conservatives can be against conserving health and environment, my own tepid politics notwithstanding. No need to hobble along in high-heeled Hobbesian hell.Red states = Obese states = High utilizers of Medicare dollars = Hypocrites
Well, that's just disrespectful. It should have been Dr. all along! Get her ass back on the phone!
