This past week I was mashing around the blue million useless channels on my DIRECTV service and came across a movie that makes me a bit wistful at the very least.

The movie Back to the Future was set between 1955 and 1985.  Michael J. Fox was the lead actor and his character was called Marty McFly.  He went back in time thanks to a car of a machine made by the scatterbrained professor named Emmett Brown.  When Marty made it back to 1985 after his flirtation with the past, Doc Brown took the time machine and told Marty he was heading for the future himself.  Marty asks Doc how far into the future he is going?  Doc tells him 30 years.  Marty asks Doc to look him up in the future and that he’ll be 47 years old.  I was 17 in 1985.  I am 47 in 2015.

I have my doubts that even the creativity of Hollywood could have come up with some of the social and political story lines that are playing out in 2015. I think it was in the episode that was called “Disorder in the Court” that Curly Howard of The Three Stooges was about to take the stand in a courtroom.  To the judge he said: “Truth is stranger than fiction…Judgy-Wudgy.”

That Curly was always ahead of the game.

Speaking the rights.

Danny Johnson