Pick Three

Three or three, take your pick. After a nutcake opened the cages of his wild animals in Ohio (having fed them with 3000 lbs. of chicken a week, no mean feat), and then committed suicide, a new law says private individuals cannot own exotic pets unless they follow new, stricter regulations. There are exemptions, however, for circuses, zoos and research facilities.

On Feb. 23, 1945, internees, paratroopers and guerrillas, three strands, came together for a rescue operation of over 2000 prisoners, at Los Banos, in the Philippines.

Why must every no include a yes or a possibility? Even Obamacare has issued over 1000 exemptions. Why must a total non sequitor like a suicide that led to a massacre of escaped wild animals require new laws? Why must a plea deal provide for an escape from the death penalty for who who truly deserves to die?

Take your pick between two trios - circuses, zoos and research facilities as exemptions or internees, paratroopers and guerrillas as exceptions in courage. I choose the latter. Daily, one needs an uplifting moment in the course of our depressing grind.