Instead of blaming the shorts, thank them for exposing the dangerous
stocks over the past year.  The accuracy professional short traders
have had in finding losers has increased drastically since the rule
change, perhaps just a coincidence.

Other than that you can blame some of the big shot companies for being
in bed with congress (both sides of the isle).

Looking at GOOG, today was a glitch, merely a glitch.  Chill out
already.

Not knowing the details of the glitch, this Google "glitch" may be
illustrating how easy it is for a short to insert a "fake transaction"
into the market that can trigger an avalanche of stop orders and
create a snow ball effect.  I'm not clear on how exactly this is done,
but if you can find a co conspirator who will help you arrange a
transaction at an artificially low price, the market will do the
rest.  I wonder how often "glitches" of this kind (of less obvious
magnitude) actually occur.

But, I'm chill.  Knowing this kind of crap is possible is 1/2 the
battle in avoiding its effects.  Chill.