| No one wants to stumble into the kitchen only to encounter a 500-pound bear rummaging in the pantry for snacks. Still, many of us find ourselves unexpectedly rooting for "Hank the Tank," the overstuffed black bear who's been breaking into homes near Lake Tahoe to feed his habit. This includes contributing columnist John Paul Brammer. "I, along with a growing chorus of people following hungry Hank's saga, find myself cheering him on and booing the officials trying to end his spree," Brammer writes. "Hank the Tank is a vision of a better life." It's not only that Hank's recidivist breaking-and-eating may well end up getting him euthanized. "At the heart of it," Brammer observes, "Hank is part of a hallowed tradition of rogue animals disrupting business as usual." They aren't just a whole hunk of cute — in Hank's case twice the size of the average bear. "They hint at a collective dissatisfaction with the way things are, with the wicked world we humans have built. Buried deep in the memes and all the giggliness is a genuine desire to tear it down and build something better, to make the kind of world where Hank the Tank — or at least what he symbolizes — doesn't have to die." Let's hope not. Go Hank.  (Jamie Pham/AP) Hank the Tank is just the latest rogue animal to make us question how we live. By John Paul Brammer ● Read more » | | | | A president who follows through with tough rhetoric on Russia? How refreshing. By Jennifer Rubin ● Read more » | | | | Why was the Biden administration so hesitant to call Russia's actions an invasion? By Marc A. Thiessen ● Read more » | | | | Like the governor, Joseph A. Ladapo seems contemptuous of policies to curb the coronavirus. By Lizette Alvarez ● Read more » | | | The finale of "Arthur" could have kept things as they were: a place for us to always come back to. By Molly Roberts ● Read more » | | | | The West is in the driver's seat if it remains resolute. By Henry Olsen ● Read more » | | | | And not a moment too soon. By Hugh Hewitt ● Read more » | | | | The Russian president believes, or wants the world to believe that he believes, that his war against Ukraine is an act of re-creation. By George F. Will ● Read more » | | | An overwhelming sense of wrongness engulfed the Beijing Games. By Kathleen Parker ● Read more » | | | | Vladimir Putin has thrown the entire world order into question. By Charles Lane ● Read more » | | | | The world must hold the line with steely patience. By David Von Drehle ● Read more » | | | | A new study finds grim but unsurprising results. By Paul Waldman ● Read more » | | | |
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