I was going to post something, but why bother since the earth has undoubtedly come to an end? After all, if you can't trust a Mayan just who CAN you trust?

So I am robo-posting this in anticipation that the earth just exploded and I have finally returned to the stardust from whence I come. However I realize that due to the time zones I may in fact be among the LAST people to realize that the earth done gone boom.

So anyhow if any of you wake up and realize that all of the predictions were the result of a bunch of overly excitable ignoramuses let me know and I will continue to do what I do.

I think my personal philosophy at times like this is best summed up by one Colonel Nick Fury.

Word!

Russians in blind panic in anticipation of Earth's end as "predicted" by Mayan calendar.

Courtesy of the Guardian:  

For more than a month, Russians around the country have been buying up candles and matches, salt and torches in an effort to outsmart the apocalypse some believe will come when the Mayan calendar runs out on Friday. 

In the coalmining town of Novokuznetsk, shelves nearly emptied of salt stocks last month as the city's residents prepared to ride through the end of the world. "60 tonnes were bought in one week," Yelena Zuyeva, a city official, said last week in comments carried on the local administration's website. "Today all trade companies are working and are ready for any level for consumer activity." 

Online forums have been buzzing with people exchanging tips on what to eat after the entire human population is wiped out on Friday. "If I'm not mistaken, Russia makes all sorts of dehydrated products that are rich in all kinds of vitamins," a user named Yelena Portnenkova wrote on a forum called "How to live? What to eat?" on VKontakte, the Russian version of Facebook. "Yet filling a garage with stocks of food is not just pointless, but dangerous. If the apocalypse comes, then crowds of hungry, angry, terrified and horrified people will sweep into your garage just because they suspect they might find something edible." 

Government officials have been called upon to calm fears. Vladimir Puchkov, Russia's emergency situations minister, urged Russians to call his ministry's hotline if they had any fears. His deputy, Sergei Anikeyev, added: "We don't believe in the 'end of the world' fable," adding hastily: "But we're ready to help people with any emergency situation." 

With the end of the world just days away, Russians have moved from buying stocks to thinking long and hard about where to be when the lights go off. In Moscow, an underground bunker built during the second world war for the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has offered its services: "We invite you to survive the apocalypse on 21 December in Bunker-42 on Taganka at 65 metres underground!" a note written in ominous red on its website cheerily reads. 

Wow, and here I thought Americans had more than their fair share of undereducated morons.

You know you would think with so MANY predictions of an apocalypse or destruction of the earth, which NEVER pan out, that people would sort of take the hint that these predictions are simply a bunch of poppycock.

Oh well, I guess it gives the little brains among us something to do with their spare time.

However perhaps we could help out our Russian brothers and sisters by proving them with a dose of Neil deGrassee Tyson.

Neil deGrasse Tyson has a message for all of those expecting 2012 to usher in the end of the world.

End-of-world prophecies for 2012 are hoaxes perpetrated by the scientifically illiterate on the scientifically under-informed
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 25, 2012

Hey did he just describe Fox News and its viewers?

Well considering that they are running headlines like this one, "Mayan apocalypse countdown: 1 month 'til doom," and this one, "Mayan Apocalypse Believers Take Refuge in French Town," and of course this one, "Will the World End on December 21?," I think perhaps he just might have been.

And THIS is the cable network that millions of people turn to for "news." 

Okay seriously the world is going to end in 2012. Would the Mayans lie to you?

So just in case you are wondering, yes this is another version of "magical thinking."

Only this time unless you are a New Age believer, an apocalyptic groupie, or a Mayan, you probably will not be insulted by having that pointed out.