[MichaelCorleone]

That's right, Norm. The proverbial ‘battered wife syndrome’.

It's easier to pretend there's still a political solution to all this apparently. Just another way of sticking one’s head in the sand.

[Night Hides Not]

It's easier to pretend there's still a political solution to all this apparently. Just another way of sticking one’s head in the sand.

Mississippi was the catalyst that should have gotten the ostrichs' heads out of the sand.