Our most recent competition, just before Thanksgiving, yielded unsurprising results: the nominees—that rogues’ gallery of Trump appointees and would-be appointees—won with 40.8 percent, while one of them, the attorney general flameout, Matt Gaetz, running separately, finished a strong second (26.7 percent). Best new recording artist Mark Zuckerberg took third (12 percent), and the suddenly ubiquitous Rudy Giuliani placed fourth (8.7 percent), for reasons we can’t even remember, he’s had so many strange outbursts lately.
As ever, the week off barely registered with true spotlight-seekers, and we’ll get to them in a moment. First this:
