If you are reading this in Boston, you are moments away from your own liquified doom

Earthquakes, smearthquakes. We're much safer here in LA, where we don't have to worry about getting flash-fried in a massive LNG explosion.

Reading today's Globe, it appears it's time for another round of LNG hysteria.

A few years ago, we were tasked with preparing a brief summary of a federal report that looked at what might happen if an LNG tanker was hit by a missile. Our recommendation to the boss: "Relax. It's inconclusive. Their own report says no one has any idea what can happen."

The front page of the Herald the next day: "A terrorist attack on a giant liquefied natural gas tanker in Boston Harbor likely would devastate nearby neighborhoods in Boston, Charlestown, and Everett, a forthcoming federal study suggests."

Hence our new career out here in LA.