Never underestimate the power of arctophilia (the love of bears): Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was propelled to the very top of the Attention-Whore Index last week on the strength of a doomed bear cub he crossed paths with 10 years ago. (His predictably bizarre explanation regarding what was already a macabre story certainly helped.) Kennedy (26.9 percent) edged out the incredible deflating Donald Trump (26.1 percent), whose mini-me minion J. D. Vance placed third (13.7 percent), slightly ahead of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (12.4 percent).
Speaking of whom, it will be interesting to see whether everyone’s favorite quasi-royal, Anglo-American, Montecito-based power couple can parlay what amounts to a soft reopening within this competition into something that has the staying power of (for instance) a long-dead bear.
