If I had to pick my No. 1 Rabid-Frothy Rant of 2006, it’d be this one, in which CNN went into another ‘news’ orbit over a dumbass kid who posted an obviously fake threat against NFL stadiums on a public online message board. Homeland Security got a whiff of it, dutifully told the NFL, and the hype was on.

And now, the knucklehead is in real trouble — the kind of trouble that will get him put in prison unless someone here gets a sense of proportion.