Calm Down, People!

This from my favorite columnist, the brilliant Mark Steyn:

As a general proposition, when told by unanimous elites that a particular course of action is urgent and necessary to avoid disaster, there's a lot to be said for going fishing*. If the entire global economy is so vulnerable that only the stalwart action of Barney Frank stands between it and ten years of soup kitchens, can it, in fact, be saved? Or look at it the other way round: Given any reasonable estimate of the number of headless chickens running around, was the five per cent fall in Asian markets and seven per cent "plummet" on the Dow in reaction to the House vote really the catastrophe some of my pals round here seem to think it was? If fear of seven per cent falls is enough to justify massive unprecedented government intrusion into the private sector, we might as well cut to the chase and go for the big Soviet command economy.

Steyn goes on to point out that in the past year the globe has cooled 0.7 degrees celsius and is now the same temperature that it was in 1930. (This has got to be the biggest unreported story ever!)

I WILL NOT BE RAILROADED!!!