eschatological essays

thank god for the internets otherwise harold camping and his ilk would've made their prediction in relative obscurity and that would have been that. today, because of our media saturated world we know, everyone knows, about the rapture scheduled for tomorrow at 6:00 pm. problem is we don't know if that is eastern standard time or pacific standard time. since camping's media empire is based in oakland, california -- just down the freeway from where i now type -- maybe the world-wide earthquake will be at 6:00 pm pacific standard time.

sounds like the plot to a cheapo zombie film. but news is news and we even had a end-of-the-world potluck at work today. i brought an angel-food cake, because i am ever the hopeful optimist. anyway, two of the best responses to camping's goofball ideology is mark young's conflation between camping and california's recently departed guvanator here and tom clark's brilliant meditation found here.

so save the date, and i'll see y'all on the other side.