Marilyn's Photos - Mar 13 2026 - Flat Footed

 

Unprepared is what flat foot means. It’s an American expression originating as U.S. baseball slang - not being on one’s toes.  Anytime there’s an expression with foot it usually is derogatory.  To put one’s foot in one’s mouth or say something stupid.  There is to put one’s best foot foremost vs get off on the wrong foot. And in Middle English a non-foot was a nobody - bottom or lowest part of anything eminent or upright.  They were quite adept at insult by the year 1200, weren’t they?   I got to thinking about this expression as it seems to be in the U.S. news media as the conclusion that the U.S. was unprepared when it launched into the U.S./Israel-Iran war began 2 weeks ago.  I saw a CNN poll that found 6 in 10 U.S. adults said they trusted Trump “not much” or “not at all” to make the right decisions about the war.  This is a worrisome sort of language for a poll to be using.   The U.S. betting site Polymarket has got a lot of attention lately.  It is illegal in Canada and many other countries.  It is a prediction betting site where traders buy and sell shares on possible outcomes - of just about anything - sports, economic indicators, weather, people saying a particular word...   It proclaims: “the promise of prediction markets is to harness the wisdom of the crowd to create accurate, unbiased forecasts for the most important events to society.”   Here’s the Polymarket Iran War screenshot.  I expect this is the top betting outcome right now - maybe because rather than in spite of  Pete Hegseth saying it was up to Trump “whether it’s the beginning, the middle or the end” of the war.   Let’s go for a pink haze of blossoms instead.  This from last year’s Niagara Blossom Trail.

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