“I think that this salon owes me an apology for setting me up,” said Nancy Pelosi last Wednesday. The story had exploded that she went out of her way to secure for herself a hairdressing service of the sort she had repeatedly told everyone else they should forgo for the duration of the pandemic, for everyone’s good, and their own.

“The b—- set me up,” was the famous phrase of Washington’s ex-mayor Marion Barry, when caught with a prostitute smoking crack. That didn’t help either.