“Put the bunny back in the box,” Cameron Poe tells Billy Bedlam in Con Air.
Snickering, Billy fails to comply.
After sticking Billy on a highly convenient, protruding metal stake, Poe says simply:
“Why couldn’t you put the bunny back in the box?”
For the next week, I am going to recommend that readers put politics back in the box. Stash that damn bunny. Fox or CNN or NPR or PBS are calling you? Don’t pick up the call.
Like Cameron Poe, you have served your time. You don’t have to track all the craziness. I fully support rallying together to demand the government find kids they lost,* but I also support stepping out of the fray for a vacation or two. Or three. Or four. Or retirement. Or forever. Your life, your call. My question for you: Has the political scene been making you happier lately?
You don’t have to let the news make you miserable. All these electronic devices? If you somehow can’t escape politics, put them aside for a week. At least so far, our devices still have off switches.
*All that government manpower and no one thought to take a picture of kids and parents together to stick on the front of a folder? And then implement a policy to reunite exactly the number of people in the picture? Even without opposable thumbs, I’m pretty sure random dolphins could do at least as well as some alleged civil servants
