At the same time, the media's coverage of politics is changing to reflect that new reality, with the mainstream losing established stars like The Washington Post's Jim VandeHei and John Harris to their new online venture, The Politico.
Allen Iverson, a bona-fide star and not just a talented sideshow like Rodman, was the guy who brought tattoos into the mainstream, and established their place in the subtextual race conflict of the NBA.
Another piece of evidence that the nation is close to a phase change and a gestalt switch is the very fact that the prevailing paradigm (from which the mainstream media, established political class, etc., operate) has to ignore huge amounts of data about Ron Paul and the movement around him to continue to make any sense.
That is why Newsweek asks on its cover, "How Dumb Are We?" If a scientific discovery as important, mainstream and established as evolution can be a source of controversy for school curricula, even if only in a few states and only sporadically, society is extraordinarily vulnerable to the results of a general decline in science training at the most elementary levels.
Loose-fitting jackets based on the traditional Japanese garment have entered the shopping mainstream after establishing their credentials especially at hipster hunting grounds such as the Coachella music festival.
For established mainstream publishers and distributors, the Christian market has become too big -- and too lucrative -- to ignore.
Though now a long established mainstream Hollywood director, Mr. Schumacher first made his mark in movies as a "black" screenwriter, helping create "Car Wash," "The Wiz" and "D.C.
He came of political age in 2010, when fiscal conservatives — some of them affiliated with the Tea Party movement — overwhelmed established mainstream Republicans.
But attitudes are changing, and a flurry of recent findings have established mainstream medical explanations for the efficacy of herbal remedies that have their origins in Hippocrates' writings.
"Our view is that it is fundamentally wrong to accept the notion that established mainstream scientific truths must not be questioned," Mr. Zuma said in the statement.
