I refused to watch the official Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bad Bunny. Seeing a grown man in a dress who has burned the American flag on a number of occasions isn't anything I was interested in.
I did not watch the Turning Point halftime alternative either. I was told that my doing so would be "supporting hate". Even though those making such accusations are responsible for more hate than anyone else in America right now. But I digress.
So what did I see instead?
I opened YouTube and started up the legendary In Living Color halftime special from 1992!
From a time when it wasn't demanded of us that we be angry enough to hate others without reason. It was a better age. More joyful and innocent. In Living Color's halftime spectacular was a stroke of genius on the part of Fox Network and 34 years later it's still very entertaining and hilarious.
Watching this was my own little act of defiance against the bitterness suffusing our culture. It may not have had the viewing numbers tonight, but it was all mine.
