WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN’: First, some thoughts on our more-interesting-than-damaging N.J. earthquake. It was a decent 4.8 temblor that took place beneath Tewksbury – which isn’t all that far from Twerksbury, a town famed for its suggestive dancing.

Upon feeling the rattle, I reflexively flashed back to my days as a nervous child of the Cold War. I rushed out back, fearfully looking for a telltale contrail, the spooky aftereffect of a retaliatory intercontinental ballistic missile nuclear counterstrike against the commies.