Monthly Archives: December 2012

Time To Talk

December 17, 2012 – 11:44 am

After the Sandy Hook shooting several right-wing TV pundits admonished the call for a national dialogue on gun control. There was no mention of guns during the presidential debates between President Obama and Mitt Romney the GOP challenger. When Bob Costas commented on a KC football player shooting his girlfriend and then himself, the NRA […]

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SAD SUNSET by Peter Nolan Smith

December 17, 2012 – 11:24 am

Friday evening Mr. Dithers was driving back from Amagansett. I had spent the day laboring on his post-modern beach house in the dunes. It was much easier work than smashing knives. The sun was setting into horizon tipped with magenta, as we drove west on Route 27 into the early evening. The mirage of open […]

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The End Of The World

December 12, 2012 – 12:27 pm

Early Christians expected the return of the Man from Nazareth to Earth. Their Messiah failed to show up to save them and converts gave up on the 2nd Coming for the End Times or ‘days of vengeance’, when their persecution would be revenged by fiery angels. Revelations in the Bible forecast the horrors of the […]

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B’ak’tun Tsunami

December 12, 2012 – 12:25 pm

Doomologists have pinpointed the end-date of the Mayan’s 5,125-year-long cycle as 13.0.0.0.0 or December 21, 2012 without predicting the cause of Armageddon. Various options for the B’ak’tun have been offered by opposing camps. Fundamentalists are hoping for the Second Coming of the Messiah and survivalists are arming up for collapse of the New World Order, […]

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High Ground

December 12, 2012 – 12:06 pm

12-21-12 is nine days away and doomsday believers hoping to survive the predicted end of days are flocking to Mount Rtanj in Carpathian range, which supposedly has a ‘special energy according to the late Arthur C Clark. A French town in the Pyrenees has also been targeted by cultists and the village authorities of Bugarach […]

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