On misremembering and fashion statements – Leah Asmelash and Scottie Andrew on CNN.com: ‘Photos of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance show them wearing black dress shoes with visible gaps between the shoe’s collar and the wearer’s foot, leaving the ankle to dangle loose in the opening like the clapper in a bell. President Donald Trump has taken to giving the male officials around him new shoes, the Wall Street Journal reported this week — specifically, mid-priced Florsheim oxfords, ordered on the spur of the moment and then faithfully worn by the recipients.’

And: ‘“You can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size,” Vance quoted Trump as saying.’

And: ‘Where did Vance and Rubio go astray? Did they misremember their sizes?’

There is a lot of misremembering going on, in the White House and elsewhere.

Politics is misremembering your size. The rest is noise.

(a sf 2079)