SlowpokeBlog

No, I'm not talking about the regressives' favorite words to bleat whenever the name John Kerry is mentioned. I'm talking about the footwear, and how ubiquitous it has become on college campuses over the past several months (assuming that UVA is not alone in this phenomenon). An astonishing number of undergrads sport the things year-round -- even on raw, 45-degree days in February. Flip flops lend an air of the ultra-casual, the unworried leisure class, with the irony being that they must be profoundly uncomfortable in cold weather. I give the trend a thumbs-down. Put some socks and shoes over those clammy toes!