Shanny, being the girl from Homer you must know that the sea rises and falls. As it is in nature, so it is with politics. We haven't reached the critical mass of "The Guns of August" quite yet. Go with the flow and don't worry too much about it. You know there isn't much that you can do about it.It simply "ebbs and flows " and we mere mortals just bob up and down with all the  other floatsam, jetsam and the lagan and derilict.