Yesterday I was ushered out of Columbus Circle by NYPD officers while the bomb squad investigated a suspicious package left under a bench near the central fountain. Then I came home and saw on TV a commercial for a new Amazing Race-ish game show Take the Money and Run.
Call me prude, but in this if-you-see-something-say-something age is it really appropriate to produce a show that encourages contestants to hide a locked steel suitcase from investigators? Here, citizen, take this unmarked package and bury it somewhere. Stash it out of sight. And show America the best way to elude authorities while you do it. Moreover: Parody criminality for profit.
There’s a lot of value in that case. But what happened to values?
No Happy Medium 
were you ushered personally and airlifted by a NYPD-esque body guard a la 15 yrs ago ?
Sadly, I don’t have half the sass I had back then … even in a state of emergency.