[hinckley buzzard]

There are two things you need to understand to respond to this article appropriately--First, tipping points are bullshit. A phoney meme of the "public intellectual." The second thing is that nothing happens over night. The proverbial case in showbiz is apropos here--"After ten years of laboring in obscurity he was an overnight sensation!"

[CharlesWayneCT]

Actually, tipping points are not only not a "phoney (sic) meme", they are both logical and observable in life. Further, the concept of "broken glass" has been proven more than once as a practical application of a tipping point.

And in fact things sometimes do happen "overnight" -- so far as it is observed by the masses. The point of "tipping point" is that things do NOT happen overnight, but the change that occurs at the critical mass is so great it appears that something literally "sprung up" when it has been growing for some time but in the dark, in the shadows -- like the Fred Thompson campaign.