At around half an hour to midnight on a random Saturday in the late 1990s, I was flipping through the channels and figured I’d watch a little bit of The Shawshank Redemption before going to sleep. I’d never seen it and thought it would end in half an hour. Turns out, the movie had only started a few minutes earlier.
I didn’t go to bed till after 2:30 a.m.
Cliff Smith is a lawyer and a former congressional staffer. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he works on national security related issues.
