We’ve come quite a distance from the virally virginal days of early March when we were still adjusting to certain grim realities we need not elaborate upon. Since then, the public’s psychological pendulum has swung swiftly—and with depressing predictably— from caution and prudence to the reckless impulsiveness of dangerously ill-informed cretins (e.g., the heavily armed, would-be militia men who cowed the Michigan State Legislature last month).