A few years ago, a bestselling book called "The Tipping Point" was on the NY Times list for many weeks. Written by author Malcolm Gladwell, the treatise was wildly popular when it was published in 2000, and it has had a strong following since publication.

As Gladwell states, the book is "about change. In particular, it's a book that presents a new way of understanding why change so often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does." He further postulates "that ideas and behavior and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease. They are social epidemics." The tipping point is "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point."

That's what happened on Election Day for the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. All the pent up anxiety over the past four years between Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, and every other contrasting demographic element in the nation boiled over and resulted in another term in office for the incumbent president. All the saber rattling with both political parties between health care reform, the economy, jobs and the unemployment rate, the housing market, the stock market, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, botched foreign affairs—including the most recent embarrassment and tragic consequences in Libya—and countless other political issues have caused the nation to say, "so what!"