Today's cuppa: English afternoon tea
Now that the Election to End All Elections has finally ended -- just in time to start planning for the next election -- the superstars of the mainstream news media face an odd challenge: can they really keep thinking they're cleverer and more discriminating than the electorate when the electorate has elected the media's candidate?
These correspondents, pundits and pundit/correspondents are now in the strange position of not being able to just blame the voters if things don't turn out as well as hoped.
And indeed, in the real world, how many things ever turn out as well as hoped? (My last attempt at making a frittata sure didn't. Don't ask. The eggs and especially the poor, innocent asparagus didn't do anything to deserve that.)
Imagine what would happen to America's TV critics if the Top 20 TV shows suddenly matched their critical Top 20 lists. It would be nothing short of TV-critic Armageddon and spell the end of "The Best TV Shows You Aren't Watching" (you silly, uninformed viewers) cover stories.
TV critics would have a hard time maintaining their cool-kid cred if everyone from Bangor to Bakersfield just loved "Mad Men." Perhaps they'd suddenly see the artistic value in the highly rated "NCIS." I know, crazy talk!
(In the interests of full disclosure, given a choice between a three-episode 
marathon of "Mad Men" and 24 straight hours of "NCIS," I'd go for the full-on Jethro every time. On the other hand, if it's 24 of "NCIS" or 24 of "24," I just might face a true moral crisis. On the other, other hand, just imagine Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Jack Bauer joining forces to battle terrorism. We'd be so safe, it almost wouldn't matter who's in 
the White House.)
So for the first time since the Clinton administration, the entertainment industry, the MSM and the Electoral College are in sync.
These folks now form the new Establishment. They are, in every sense of the word, "The Man."
That being said, who comprises the new anti-Establishment forces?
Who are the new rebels against the Empire?
Stay tuned.