mirage

Or, just maybe, it was all a mirage, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer and one of its greatest players still lurking, waiting for the moment to strike.

His mirror-clad house in Palm Springs, “Mirage,” got a wink in the Showtime series “The Curse.”

The intention here isn’t to suggest the transformations the Chargers have made under Harbaugh are a mirage.

But even beyond that unsolvable problem, it has become clear that the decades-long Democratic Party faith in demographics as destiny was a disastrous mirage.

Rayfield often won his re-election races with as much as 70 percent of the vote, but knows that’s a mirage.