Leave it to The New York Times to find Spartacus, the true leader of the Tea Party movement. Turns out Spartacus has a nose ring, does stand up comedy, and lives in a neighborhood with a bunch of immigrants. Oh, one more thing, Spartacus is a female.

Here’s the Times summary of Keli Carender’s year-long journey from political obscurity to a Washington, D.C. seminar on how to change the nation’s political balance of power: