I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason. – The Day The Earth Stood Still

The herd is restless tonight.  Loud-mouthed morons in the Middle East and a President who can’t figure out how to follow the anti-epidemic techniques of the 10th century are sending ripples of fear through the country.   It won’t take much to really spook the cattle and get them stampeding.  We have to figure out a way to do more than live from crisis to crisis.  We need to stand up and say “This is what we are, and this is what we are going to do”, and we need to stick to that.  Governance by reaction is going to destroy us, and if we don’t head this off soon, things will get ugly.