It may be the Pince Nez wireframed glasses. They are about as common and as popular these days as Bow Ties or Bolo Ties.
You may well be the only one. That thought has never once crossed my mind.
Now that you mention it though, it’s not totally baseless....except Alan West is much smarter than Dilbert....and his necktie doesn’t flap in the breeze like Dilbert’s, either.
Now that you mention it.
Alan is one of my troika for President (Palin, West, Bolton). I am leaning Palin President, West VP, Bolton SoS. I would like to see West given a huge stack of pink slips and told fix the bureaucracy.