FOOD FOR THOUGHT: How did ...

20-minutes-of-fame Julian Assange construct the façade of an idealistic crusading electronic muckraker?

global warming so easily get away with becoming “climate change”?

authoritarian and Islamist Palestinian groups become reinvented into traditional Western victimized minorities — analogous to women, gays, and minorities

professors convince us that their universities are progressive, anti-capitalist, and against the grain institutions?

Barack Obama invent himself into a bi-partisan, working across the aisle, no more red state/blue state unifying figure?

"Lurking somewhere behind all these improbables is a rather small Western elite that is enormously influential in the media, government, the arts, universities, and Hollywood."