Are You a Doom Junkie?
I'm losing all my friends. They think I'm nuts. I'm wondering whether they're correct. Are we nuts? Or are we just doom junkies? I've been getting lots of blank stares lately. If I talk about the end...
View ArticleOn Despair For My Country
What happens when the Shining City Upon a Hill falls into chaos? On looking for a citation for "Shining City Upon a Hill" I first found Reagan, but I am loath to attribute that man. Further searching...
View ArticleBuy a gas guzzler and GM will buy your gas
This has to rank as the most absurd offer ever. General Motors Corp. is promising gas-guzzler buyers in Florida and California that they will "cap" gas costs at $1.99 per gallon.The Miami Herald has...
View ArticleRevelations on 666: Origins of a symbol [w/Poll]
Where does the idea of 666 as a satanic symbol come from? While theatrically it's associated with the movie the Omen, whose remake is opening today, one has to ask how far back are its roots?...
View ArticleThe End of The World
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own...
View ArticleOh No! Oh Help! Bloody Google. UPdated
During this week when I have been informed:1] What colour boxer shorts Obama will be wearing for the inauguration. 2] What colour socks Biden will dance in. 3] The height and angle of Michelle's...
View ArticleHave you seen the Anti-Christ hanging out lately?
Lately I've heard by the conservative grapevine that Obama is the Anti-Christ, meaning that the Great Rapture is just around the corner, and even perhaps the end of the world.Some folks like to label...
View ArticleNEXT time, the Republic is gone for good.
The following diary -http://www.dailykos.com/...started me thinking. Truth is that we WERE saved from a dictatorship by the poor choice of an inept and ultimately unwilling figurehead. George W. Bush...
View ArticleMayan Calendar & the End of the World?
There has been a lot of media coverage on the misconception that the ancient Maya calendar is somehow predicting the end of the world (worse case scenario) or at least some major catastrophe in 2012....
View ArticleThe Road: A Storm Warning for Humanity
"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Stephen HawkingThere is no film that illustrates the foolishness of confining human civilization solely to...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: The End of the World
The non-Indian interpretations of the Maya Calendarthat call for the world to end in 2012 have it wrong. Harold Camping, based on a mathematical model of the Bible, predicts that the world will end on...
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Yeah? Well Mine Is Bigger
Taipei 101Yesterday's news of the opening of the world's tallestbuilding phallic symbol was a pun fest. The New York Times, for example, had as a headline, "Dubai Opens a Tower to Beat All." The Dubai...
View ArticleLarge Hadron Collider: Good news and bad news (Updated)
There is good news and bad news about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that began -- finally -- to smash protons beams together at 99% of the speed of light today below the fields and meadows at CERN's...
View ArticleThe Day After iPad - Is There One?
The media is awash with the buzz, the lines are snaking all over the world with famished "wanters" and "needers" and like an oracle's tablet the iPad is delivered as if coming down from Mt. Olympus....
View ArticlePassing the Buck...Down
Lost amid the debate over health care, the two wars, the financial meltdown, and whether or not we're paying less taxes under Obama than under Bush (I suspect this is correct, but I don't think it's...
View ArticleThe Midnight Cry
This is the first of a series of articles looking at predictions of the "end of the world." Because this is only a portion of the discussion, it may seem that the political aspects are pretty light....
View ArticleThe end of the world! (w/audio)
Today Devilstower posted a fine diary on the Millerites and the end of the world. I was exposed to a lot of this from an early age, from Beyond the Fringe's "The End of the...
View ArticleThe Midnight Cry (Part 2)
Last Sunday featured a look at the Millerites, a group that grew rapidly through the 1830s based around predictions that the Second Coming would occur in 1843 or 1844. The most definitive prediction...
View ArticleFrom Seasonal Affective to Clinical Depression!
After a hiatus of some months, I am back to give warning about how plain old Seasonal Affective Disorder can descend into the sheer gloom and hopeless darkness of clinical depression. Along the way I...
View ArticleMore Pre-Rapture Advice
There are quite a few diaries already up on the issue of the coming Rapture on May 21, followed by the End of the World on October 21.See here, here and here.As helpful as these diaries are in...
View ArticleThe Rapture Post Mortem
This is going to sound silly to many of you, but as the dust clears to reveal that nothing extraordinary has happened, I have a simple request of Kossaks who consider themselves religious and/or...
View ArticleJesus Confirms World Ended Saturday
From The Desperate BloggerAppearing at a poolside press conference at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Jesus Christ officially announced his return in anticipation of his long-awaited showdown...
View ArticleTurn Signals
Have you noticed that a whole lot of people expect the world to end soon? I am not one of them but I am fascinated by them.There was the young woman barrista in the coffee shop I frequent who had been...
View Article12.21.12 - The Birth of World 5.0
The Winter Solstice of this year, 12.21.12, is the most auspicious occasion in modern memory. No other date resonates with such ancient warnings and curious attention. No other date has offered so much...
View ArticleTwo more days until the end of the world. I wish we could make it the end of...
What a country this is! Here we are playing poker rather than governing, besieged by religion, and having our annual materialistic orgy. It is hard to look forward to my favorite "holiday" the Winter...
View ArticleFavorite songs: End of days edition
Unless you've been living under a rock, you have probably heard anything and everything related to the Mayan calendar prophecy which states that tomorrow marks the end of the world. Of course,...
View ArticleThe Mayans were RIGHT!
Sorry for this short diary. I have to get back to my end of the world party. I just wanted to observe that the Mayans were right. The world is ending. The Republicans have decided to go over the...
View ArticleHappy 14th B'ak'tun! Tell Us Your New B'ak'tun Resolutions!
As you may have heard, at 3:12 a.m. PT or 6:12 a.m. ET (i.e., Friday December 21 at 11.12 a.m. GMT) is the moment of the winter solstice. The autumn of 2012 ends, the existence of the world probably...
View ArticleEnd of the GOP World(view)?
So is today the end of the world? No - depending on how you define "world," anyway. For the ancients and even some of the moderns, "the end of the world" means the literal end of the literal, factual,...
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The world is still ending today and I'll show you two reasons why
Today at my company's Christmas party, I won one of the door prizes! Ticket numbers were given at the entrance door and my number was later drawn. After your number was drawn, you would go up front to...
View ArticleFearing God at the End of the World
But I've come to recognize the value of apprehension - because fear which is not squelched or pacified by the mental hocus pocus of pious devotion can be a great motivation for necessary change....
View ArticleThe NRA has its Issues
Enough issues to make their members part with their cash, and then rush out and stock pile a personal armory of weapons -- just in case the worse of what they can imagine, ever does come to pass.Stuff...
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Guns and the People who Own them
Types of Gun Owners -- cracked.comlarger imageThe NormalThe vast majority of gun owners buy a gun, learn and actually follow the rules of gun safety. They spend their time at the range, put it out of...
View ArticleMini-Cine: "The World is Going Down"
Can't do political ads all the time.This is another jaunty little tune about the end of the world (yeah, I've got a million of 'em), that had its genesis years back when I read an article about...
View ArticleIs Congress ending their war on Medical Marijuana?
Victory: Congress ends war on medical marijuanaIn a landmark moment for cannabis law reform, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure late Thursday night to de-fund the federal war on...
View ArticleThe World Will End On Oct. 7th...No, You Probably Don't Need To Pack
You've got to hand it to apocalyptic Christians. Despite having been wrong Every. Single. Time. since history began to be recorded, they still pretend that they have a hotline to God.So, what's the...
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World to End on Wednesday
I hate to spoil your last night/morning on Earth, but I must inform you that God will be destroying the world on October 7, 2015. It sucks - - I know.http://usdailyreview.com/...The eBible Fellowship,...
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Connect! Unite! Act! NOLA, Dallas, Oakland & Valdosta Meet-Ups — Earth's End?
A daily series, Connect! Unite! Act! seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups regularly socialize but also get out the vote, support candidates and engage in other...
View ArticleDr Strangelove Part II
China’s rattling sabers. In the Middle East, U.S. and Russian fighter fill up the crowded skies over Syria and Iraq dropping bombs on uncertain targets. At the Pentagon plans are being made to deploy...
View ArticleWhy the GOP Sells the End of the World
Why the GOP Sells the End of WorldI listen to the Republican Presidential candidates talk about America and it’s a place I don’t recognize. It sounds like a corpse strewn hell-scape, like Republicans...
View ArticleThe dead canary on the President's desk
“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word so anti-poetic as the life of a man in the United States.” Alexis de TocquevilleAnd I’m paraphrasing Saul...
View ArticleIs the GOP plotting to make Pence president?
What if the Republicans impeach Trump and Mike Pence becomes President? This is a man who has said that gay people should be imprisoned. While Trump seems to be getting in the Republicans’ way, Pence...
View ArticleMusic for watching the world end, or, the beginning of the end, as the case...
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View ArticleSunday Open Thread: October 22nd is INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY
World History this day1859 – Spain declared war on Morocco. 1866 – A plebiscite ratifies the 3 day previous annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy 1943 – The RAF launched a firestorm air raid on...
View ArticleBurning a hole in reality—design for a new laser may be powerful enough to...
Prepare to be inundated with a fresh round of stories on how we might mad science ourselves out of existence. Because a French scientist and his loyal supercomputer have worked out a way to punch a...
View ArticleIt's The End Of The World As We Know It, But I Have Toilet Paper
"It's the end of the world as we know it, but I have toilet paper"By Ray Cunneff March 19, 2020Yesterday, one of our local supermarkets held an early morning "seniors only" shopping spree, a chance for...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread - Working Together by Staying Apart
An Editor’s Note: Rarely do I cede my Friday slot on Morning Open Thread, but our guest contributor this morning came to me with a wonderful idea that blossomed into a timely and relevant piece; I...
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Cartoon: The Fiery Bottom Line
hilarybrowngreetings.comHonestly, all the other stuff we’re arguing over will soon be irrelevant..
View ArticleAbortion, Gays, Guns - and the End of the World
There have been lots of essays, here and elsewhere, about the increasing influence and power of far-right-wing Christianity in our lives, how it drives or is driven by racism, misogyny, the sheer...
View ArticleOne thing about "apocalypses"
So Slate has this article about why so many right wing Christians believe we are living in the "end times." It's a pretty good article; Molly Olmstead does a decent job of outlining the various nuances...
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