The winner of the 2015 "Dude, what were you thinking?" hairdo of the year award goes to political commentator David Brock

53-year old Berkley history graduate David Brock started life as a conservative. He worked as a journalist on the conservative Insight on the News before becoming a research fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He then morphed into a right-wing hit-man lobbing scandal grenades at the Clintons, producing books and writing for The American Spectator. This is what he looked like early in his career:

A distinctly "conservative nerd, complete with silly red bow-tie" vibe. He appears to have subsequently adopted a less dweebish, more full-on right-wing culture-warrior persona:

But then, in the late '90s, he took a turn to the left (which got him fired from his $300,000 American Spectator gig) and became a Hillary Clinton supporter - and this happened:

Not content with a few white highlights, he then went full platinum blond:

A sort of "Greetings, earthlings - I come from a far galaxy to bring you a message of peace" other-worldly number. This led other leading figures in the political-media world to follow suit:

But still Brock wasn't satisfied. Yet another radical rug re-think has now resulted in this rather startling schoolmarm/Christine Lagarde/Michael Heseltine mash-up:

David Brock is a confirmed bachelor. And, needless to say, a CAUC.