[Names Ash Housewares]

Time for the doom song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqcn_TPu4qQ

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

What happened to the Phoenix always spreads its wings before dusk.

All great civilizations reach an apex and then fade.

Overshoot and collapse anyone? Paging Jared Diamond.

[Pontiac]

America has been so spooked by the horror-movie scenarios that it's pouring money into defense against biological weapons. Leitenberg says that's a mistake, both because it diverts resources from more serious threats -- like natural diseases and epidemics

How is preparing for a manmade Epidemic different than preparing for a natural one?

[highlander_UW]

One wonders if the reason they say 50/50 is that it’s about the same chance a democrat will win the presidency in 2008

[Dallas59]

I have a %100 chance of being dead by 2100...so’s I ain’t worried.

[andyandval]

Oh no!!

[Fresh Wind]

Art Bell’s guest this morning said an asteroid will hit in about 25 years. If we don’t find a new planet to pollute, that’s it for the human species.

[TalBlack]

“...but he fears that progress will be undone by what he calls the new global village idiots.”’

I think he is wrong. It will be undone by cowards and their cowardice NOT not idiots and their idiocy.

[shekkian]

Now, the clock's keepers, alarmed by dangers like climate change, have moved the hands to 11:55 p.m.

I guess that leaves me with only five more minutes to screw some hot chick before we all go.

(sarc alert)