Hopping Mad

Advertising for a brand of Brazilian sandals features a film star unforgivably implying moral equivalence between left and right feet: a blasphemy made all the more heinous by the inclusion of the national flag among the manufacturer's trademarks. Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, who has suffered footwear problems of his own thanks to a recalcitrant ankle tag, are calling for a boycott; while the wannabe-dictator's own son has daringly had himself filmed throwing sandals into a bin. On the bright side, thanks to the storming forth of fascist snowflakes it seems the arrival of summer in the Southern Hemisphere will not necessarily prevent a white Feastmas.