Colin Quinn on 'Overstated': It's time for America to get divorced — or maybe just hold a new constitutional convention

Colin Quinn is convinced the United States need to divorce. He's been arguing this for a while now, but his new book, "Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States," takes the premise further.

He imagines the country 244 years into its marriage, nearly exhausted by counseling, on the brink of filing the divorce papers. "The only reason we never broke up was because we all lived with the marriage lie. They'll change. Give it time," he writes. "Trying to legally and culturally accommodate a country that has a Vermont and a Kansas living by the same rules. It's pretty amazing that we pulled it off for as long as we did, really."

The book, which expands on themes he explored in his off-Broadway show "Red State, Blue State" (now on Netflix), is styled as a final assessment. Before filing those divorce papers, he writes, "we have to ask: Is this what we really want? It's a big decision, so we should look at what we did and