<The end is near.

"One night I was roused from my sleep by a rap at the door and I heard the Deacon's voice exclaiming 'Arise, Abraham, the day of judgement has come!' I sprang from my bed and rushed to the window and saw the stars falling in great showers! But looking back of them in the heavens I saw all the grand old constellations with which I was so well acquainted, fixed and true in their places. Gentlemen, the world did not come to an end then, nor will the Union now."
-- Abraham Lincoln's recollection of the 1833 Leonid meteor storm

The media of today is no more fierce than the media of the 19th century, but the network WorldCom built helps propagate the doomsayers and sensationalists much faster and better than the old teletype, wagon wheel and word-of-mouth.

It's still recoverable,
Dan