[Magdalen] waiting for the replacement

[M J _Mike_ Logsdon]

>>>I think he realizes that the destruction of civilization in the USA
diminishes us all, regardless what country we're in.<<<

And, he basically lives here.  Or basically works here.  Or, whatever.  He cares, in other words.

I especially like his hard cider commercials.

And I will never cease cherishing the day I shook his hand at my small Baptist college in Riverside.  We the English Dept asked him to stay longer (he'd given a lecture on the Merchant of Venice), but he said he "was needed in Los Angeles to take care of some business".

A week later, the first Star Trek: The Next Generation commercials started running.