As Usual, Atrios is the Voice of Reason

Compared to the frantic braying that is going on across the rest of the interwebs. Unfortunately, I don't think people will stop listening to the Armageddonites. We're too hard-wired for fight or flight. (thus ends my foray into amature evolutionary psychology).

(Although, honestly, it is probably on a par with the typical drivel put out by Pinker and his ilk).