A recent NYTimes article by Alex Williams (1.11.2013) lamenting the end of courtship in this new internet culture has triggered a huge amount of media attention and reaction. In today’s paper, columnist Frank Bruni urges us not to panic — but rather to pause a moment and “return to a halcyon world of agrarian ways and contemplate the unflustered situation of a fertile lass on the cusp of womanhood centuries ago.”