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" One of the more interesting phenomena that I enjoy tracking is the way that Gigantic Super-Duper MegaNewsStories, often with their own logos and doomy theme music, blaze across the landscape for a few days, or even a week, and then completely vanish, as though the bigger the story, the less likely we are to believe that its inevitable consequences have anything to do with our lives as we are living them Now which, as we all know, is the only period of time worth talking about. And then the possibly radioactive refrigerators start showing up. When was the last time anyone mentioned the tsunami, or the Fukushima reactor? It was the end of the world for a week or so. Then we moved on. And that&amp;#039;s only one of the problems facing anyone who&amp;#039;s trying to use the massacre in Newtown to get the country to start making sense about firearms. We have the collective attention span of a gnat. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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