A little perspective
by digby
The irrationality of the latest Chicken Little terrorists-are-all-coming-to-kill-us-in-our-beds crisis is enough to make my head explode. The violence we just live with every day like it's nothing is completely accepted. We can't do a thing about it. God put it into the constitution and that's that.
But a Muslim terrorist attack on a Christmas party at a county office in San Bernardino has everyone running around in circles screaming "ohmyGODwe'reallgonnadie!!!"
It's so inane that I'm feeling a little bit crazy just trying to write about it.
Here's a map which illustrates just how batshit ridiculous it all is:
