The 117th sign of the apocalypse

Nanny Mcphee is playing on American Movie Classics right now.

14th sign of the apocalypse

This was on FOX Business Channel. FOX! Yes, FOX!

The 11th sign of the apocalypse

The republican nominee is the first out of the gate to come out with a bold energy proposal. Granted he was propsing more offshore drilling the week before, but maybe the backlash from the gas-tax-holiday and drilling was instructive to him. Will it be a 'Uniter-not a-Divider' moment?

No one wants to see your schwarzschild

The world might end soon, unless a lawsuit filed in Hawaii might save us all before it's too late. Thank god we won't be swallowed by a black hole. I knew that those particle accelerators were the devil's work! How will you explain that, Mr Scientist?

The third horseman of the apocalypse

People Magazine, oh sorry I meant The New York Times, publishes an article on the Spitzer 7 diamond girl. Half bio, pictures, and a few quotes from telephone calls, and half a description of her Myspace page. I'm not kidding, half the article is about what is on her myspace page and who her top friends are.

The end is nigh

Ok, maybe in reality it isn't, but that really only makes a difference to those of us in the reality based community. In George Bush's mind, it is indeed nigh. To the average onlooker, his policies and the things he does may seem foolish. If we were in the last days, it makes all to much sense. War, pestilence, World War III, the tribulation, are all imminent, as well as his ascension to Sunday school in the sky, no longer having to deal with it all. Why worry about the deficit, the biggest ever, and the costs of the Iraq war aren't even included in the budget, when soon you will be lifted up to heaven with all your christian brethren? It's not as if we will have to pay it back after the rapture? Even if we did, everyone that mattered will have ascended already, so the heathen fools left behind (now with Kirk Cameron) will have to figure out their own way to pay. Why worry about loss of habitat, deforestation, climate change, or depleteion of natural resources when you'll be up in heaven for the rest of eternity in a few years? With the tribulation imminent, perhaps already underway, there's no need to worry about how people will generate energy 100 years from now, or even 50 years from now, since only unbelievers will be left to survive with no more oil in the ground and an infrastructure and landscape dependent on the availability of cheap and abundant energy. It's inconceivable to consider any medium or long term effects of significantly changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere by pumping eons of stored carbon gas back into it. We came, we saw, we cashed in, now lets blow this joint.