That Super Bowl was the most boring game in memory. I stopped watching it once it became clear that it couldn’t help itself.
Instead, having noticed that Netflix is featuring some old Rob Reiner movies in the wake of his tragic death, I revisited “The American President” (1995), starring Michael Douglas.
You know one of the things I miss? A political leader I could look up to, instead of down at. A person with flaws (like all of us) but able to rise above them in the name of the common good.
Not a pilfering, perfidious predator. whose comprehension of the common good begins and ends with the image in his mirror.
There are many other things I miss, of course, that are more personal. That movie includes a romance, which reminded me of what I miss most of all.
Love.
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