Fifteen Minutes of Shame
Predictably, it’s over before most of us knew it had even begun. The meteoric career of a cartoonish right-wing troll and social media shockmeister who happens to be gay—a sad human being who didn’t deserve a moment of serious attention—has come crashing down with all the sordid sensationalism that gave rise to it. Like most people in the English-speaking world, I was blissfully unaware of this vacuous sham artist’s existence until about a month or…