I think I see a trend in this pattern, and it's nearing a tipping point. We are crossing the Ruricon, and throwing down the gauntlet.
But we're beginning this revolution with a tiddy-bity of trepidation, because our crack historian gets confused between the Profumo affair and Watergate, thinks Teapot Dome is three separate words, and believes all these scandals are somehow related to the Sherman Antitrust Act, which she puts in the wrong century.
I don't know, it all seems so messy and dangerous, just so a deadbeat in San Diego can hop through a broken display window and score a new TV.