Spurs, and not just San Antonio
As an aside in this week’s FMJRA, Smitty advises that I might not want to follow some outbound link: “[Y]ou can’t follow this URL, the spurred high heels are too dangerous.”
What is life, if not a series of dangers? And anyway, the Texas Zeitgeist is way ahead of him. Clipped from a TLC network promo, circa 2005:
The show didn’t last very long, and it probably wouldn’t have helped even if someone had thought of the title Real Housewives of the Park Cities, but this particular fashion detail is far from the most unheard-of thing I ever heard of.
Incidentally, this is the outbound link in question: it’s a response to a particularly-uninformed denunciation of the practice of home-schooling one’s children that appeared in Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly, a University of Maryland title that you can read (in PDF format) for yourself. The header graphic fits just fine with the article itself, since both hint at the inadvisability of messing with Texas.
