It was a Friday afternoon in the spring of 2008. A friend was running for state office in North Carolina and I had been serving as his campaign treasurer. And at a rally in Chapel Hill he had been given the hearty endorsement of then-presidential candidate Ron Paul. Meeting Dr. Paul was a great honor and I was feeling pretty good about things. So en route back home, just on a whim I decided to take in a movie that was just released that same day.
Ten years later, dozens of movies and many television spinoffs later (and maybe someday we’ll see those intersect with the main films… I mean how hard is it to get Peter Parker into the offices of Nelson and Murdock for legal advice?!) and what seems to me like two or three other lifetimes,
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