Memory is an odd thing. We’ve noticed I have a hard time remembering names, but I am extremely good at recognizing faces. Mme Reclus and I often watch old movies on TV and I can recall an obscure actor that appeared in some other film; “Hey, that’s the guy that played Queequeg in ‘Moby Dick’.”

She, on the other hand, has an uncanny ability to recognize voices, even though her hearing is in a bad way. For my part, I find myself making typos when I write that I should know perfectly well. For example, I often use ‘hear’ and ‘here’ interchangeably and confuse ‘there’, ‘they’re’ and ‘their’, even though I know perfectly well which is which. You may have noticed I have given up even trying to remember whether “its” and “it’s” is required (contraction vs possessive). I didn’t use to have that problem.

These glitches are no big deal, I can live my life fine with them, but they do offer clues that they may be the result of more serious problems deeper in the machinery.

I also have noticed that when I read some of my older writings, from five or ten years ago, the quality was much better back then. Its not just a question of typos, I’m just not as good as I used to be. That’s the scariest part of all.

What we’ve already learned from the cognitive test Biden won’t take.

…And Biden’s answer to whether he grasped how badly (the debate) was going in real time — well, that could have been typical Biden rambling, something that those of us who have covered him have witnessed for years, or it could have been more.

Biden’s response, in its entirety: “The whole way I prepared, nobody’s fault, mine. Nobody’s fault but mine. I, uh — I prepared what I usually would do, sitting down as I did come back with foreign leaders or National Security Council for explicit detail. And I realized — about partway through that, you know, all — I get quoted, the New York Times had me down at 10 points before the debate, nine now, or whatever the hell it is. The fact of the matter is, what I looked at is that he also lied 28 times. I couldn’t — I mean, the way the debate ran, not — my fault, no one else’s fault, no one else’s fault.”

Excuse me, what?

Sounds like a Trumpian word salad.

Go figure.

Sir Orange keeps touting it. Never realizing that it’s usually given because there are signs of senility, or if you’re over 70 and want to keep driving, or if you’re just old…