Life’s throwing lots of scary things at us lately. Weekly helps you rank your level of concern:
1. Ebola virus Wait, they’re bringing the infected to America? Hasn’t anyone seen the movie Outbreak?
2. Lightning The odds of being struck in any given year may be 1 in 700,000, but more than a dozen were hit recently in LA at the same time. Coupled with all this weird, wet August weather in Las Vegas, we say, screw statistics and freak out!
3. Cliven Bundy’s comment that God told him to fight a “civil war” against federal agents Just in case you needed a reminder that, yeah, he’s still out there.
4. White Castle On the one hand, those nifty, little burgers are finally coming to town for good. On the other, we’re already having nightmares about the ensuing line.
5. The new Game of Thrones language course At least the nerds will stop speaking in Klingon for a while.
6. Education No one’s panicked about our bottom-of-the-barrel national standing yet. Why start now?