LDSK - Long Distance Serial Killer, is an offender who shoots their victims in order to create panic and fear; often improperly referred to as a "sniper".
Our panic is more genteel, softened by balmy California weather, a laid-back attitude, and, OK, the fact that we haven't had a local industry completely implode.
The film, meanwhile, a necessary digest of the 800-page book, leaves us faintly annoyed that the true denouement of the cycle is now two movies distant.
He has scorned concerns over the interest cost on Italy's vast public debt, which Mr Monti had almost halved before Mr Berlusconi's reappearance panicked investors.
It sets off an alarm in the brain's amygdala, our fear center, where we are highly attuned to threats of all kinds. Once the amygdala sends out an alarm, we don't think-we act.