Sunday, March 20, 2011

Enough

Dear news media

Remember back in '50s and early '60s, when we set off something like 900 atomic bombs in Nevada? And how we just let the fallout blow wherever and it landed all over the eastern US? And how it wiped out life as we know it and all that was left from Colorado to the Atlantic were six-legged rats battling two-headed cockroaches in the glowing ruins?

Yeah. Exactly. So shut up with the panic already.

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Thanks Greg for saying

Not to make light of the current situation in Japan, nor to minimize its significance -- but this does serve as a needed voice of sanity in the midst of all the hand-wringing and dire predictions we have been getting in the last week.

But then again, "All is well" doesn't sell nearly as well as "It's the end of the world as we know it."

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