What a drag it is getting old and watching icons go by

There are two phenomena from our formative youth that share a single name, and now the protagonists of both are dead.

“Deep Throat,” the source, changed a presidency and the career paths of many.

“Deep Throat,” the movie, changed many an attitude about what is acceptable entertainment.

Today we learn former FBI agent W. Mark Felt is dead at 95.

Linda Lovelace of the movie fame, whose performance lent Woodward and Bernstein a name for their anonymous source, died in a car accident near Denver in 2002.

As Mick Jagger once said in the song “Mother’s Little Helper,” “What a drag it is getting old.”