I’m missing the Olympics this summer, which could explain why YouTube is showing me videos of runners and jumpers lately, trying to entice me.

They always succeed. I usually remember why I came to the site about four hours later, when it starts all over again.

I think this is less an attraction to glittery objects than my brain after nearly six months of isolation. I have the attention span of a gnat, which is probably unfair to gnats but go ahead and come after me, gnat lovers. I’m not scared of you.

But I’m really getting these recommendations because I did a search on the 1968 Mex...