Politics has become something of a Whose Line Is It Anyway episode.  Everything’s made up and the points don’t matter.  Or rather, the crises are made up and everyone behaves like the issues don’t actually matter.  The debt ceiling, the fiscal cliff, the sequestration, the government shutdown – is it all one desperate attempt to stay relevant?

I have an idea:  What if we all collectively agreed to stop paying attention to their invented political melodramas?  What if news stations realized we were not watching anymore?  What if we stopped tweeting our frustrations and feeding their insatiable hunger for attention? Continue reading →