A small pipe bomb found at the home of George Soros . . . Suspicious packages intercepted on their way to the Clintons and the Obamas . . . another suspicious package addressed to the White House (according to CNN, though a Reuters report later said no such package was found there). Now CNN headquarters, in the colossal Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle in Manhattan, is being evacuated due to a suspicious package discovered in the mailroom.

Let’s keep our cool. Whatever entity or entities are behind these attacks want to fill us with rage and panic and hatred. Let’s not take the bait.

Shades of the post-9/11 anthrax attacks, which killed five people and terrorized the whole country all over again, especially the media. A man who worked at National Enquirer headquarters was killed. Anthrax was sent to NBC News, practically across the street from where I worked in the Time-Life building. Anthrax hospitalized someone I knew in the editorial department of the New York Post a couple of blocks down Sixth Avenue.

Bad as all that was, it ended. We got on with it. We carried on. No one has been hurt yet by this week’s attacks. Let’s not let this consume us.