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Yesterday's LAT [Ed.note—How fitting.] looked at how Deckers Outdoor, infernal corporate incubator of the furry evil that is the Ugg boot, is trying to prevent their disappearance into the the ether of fashion fads, where they'd have to wait to be ironically resurrected by our hipster grandchildren as we sit in an urn on the mantle. The LAT lede:

Ugg is so 2003. Or not.

Despite fashion mavens' insistence that the sheepskin boots are passe, some retailers are in a furry footwear frenzy.

We stopped reading right there. Unfortunately, the medicine-dropper that we used to scald our eyeballs with lemon juice did little to ease our pain.